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This article appears to be inconsistant with Wikipedia is not a soapbox Section 3, as well as Wikipedia is not a repository of links.
It appears that the only purpose of this article is to advertise a list of companies that sell clothing. Although it has many cites and wikilinks, it doesn't cite the actual claim of original development or that certain fabrics have more "blocking power". The section on UPF rating could easily be merged into sunscreen, as it is the only potential section of the article that contains useful information. The rest seems to be filler to justify a set of links to commercial sites. I would request the article be deleted, and perhaps the UPF section be merged into sunscreen if so desired.
This article was not linked to anything else until a day or two ago. Pharmboy 22:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I see someone has removed the delete tag. I still feel the commercial links need to be removed, but wanted to raise the issue before making an edit. The page is still against wiki policy in several regards. Pharmboy 13:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
This is an important, appropriate article. Recent news reports in the US claim that many UPF labeled garments do not perform at the claimed UPF level. It would be good for the article to have more examples of real UPF ratings for various special garments. Even more important, it should have a big section of information about the real UPF measurements of typical ordinary garments. It seems like the key piece of practical advice people need to know is: if you hold a piece of cloth up to the light and can readily see through it, it probably does not offer much UPF.- 69.87.203.105 11:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I was going to post the following comment for discussion anyway, before I noticed the "bad article?" section..it's in a way something that would help fix that..what I wanted to suggest, if people can find it, is the following:
General guidelines on how protective various types of fabrics are. 100% exact numbers are NOT needed..just general ranges of UV blocking factors for different types of (the most common types of) clothing material would be _extreamly_ helpful for consumers in general and wikipedia readers in particular, along the lines of a list of say the top 4 to 10 types of fabric like:
"**13.5 ounce fabric cotton denim generally: (protection factor goes here)
..." including for some non-cotton commonly used fabrics, etc..
and so forth. (these are from real items from a certain online retailer whose name I need not mention since I'm not a clothes expert and needed real examples) That would be so useful to know how well they compare (even roughly, no need to be perfectly exact) to one another so people can have the info they need (an encyclopedia needs to be relevant to what's useful in people's lives including non-academic, practical lives) and knowing how this or that particular fabric compares to say a 15 SPF lotion on bare skin, etc, would be a very helpful comparison to know (I seem to recall reading somewhere that most clothes are better b studies etc...) Thanks to anyone who can add such useful info to this wikipedia entry.
That would make it far less commercial AND far far more useful to wikipedia readers. Harel 02:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Am I the only one coming to this article asking this question? The most important thing to add to his article would be to list peer reviewed studies (and possibly summarize results in a table) of how regular clothing compares with SPF clothing. I have never heard of anyone getting a sunburn through normal cotton clothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.61.205.59 ( talk) 14:49, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Belated thanks for all the comments above. I just added the following to the Sunscreen and Sun protective clothing articles:
Hope this helps, at least as a start. — Patrug ( talk) 23:50, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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This article appears to be inconsistant with Wikipedia is not a soapbox Section 3, as well as Wikipedia is not a repository of links.
It appears that the only purpose of this article is to advertise a list of companies that sell clothing. Although it has many cites and wikilinks, it doesn't cite the actual claim of original development or that certain fabrics have more "blocking power". The section on UPF rating could easily be merged into sunscreen, as it is the only potential section of the article that contains useful information. The rest seems to be filler to justify a set of links to commercial sites. I would request the article be deleted, and perhaps the UPF section be merged into sunscreen if so desired.
This article was not linked to anything else until a day or two ago. Pharmboy 22:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I see someone has removed the delete tag. I still feel the commercial links need to be removed, but wanted to raise the issue before making an edit. The page is still against wiki policy in several regards. Pharmboy 13:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
This is an important, appropriate article. Recent news reports in the US claim that many UPF labeled garments do not perform at the claimed UPF level. It would be good for the article to have more examples of real UPF ratings for various special garments. Even more important, it should have a big section of information about the real UPF measurements of typical ordinary garments. It seems like the key piece of practical advice people need to know is: if you hold a piece of cloth up to the light and can readily see through it, it probably does not offer much UPF.- 69.87.203.105 11:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I was going to post the following comment for discussion anyway, before I noticed the "bad article?" section..it's in a way something that would help fix that..what I wanted to suggest, if people can find it, is the following:
General guidelines on how protective various types of fabrics are. 100% exact numbers are NOT needed..just general ranges of UV blocking factors for different types of (the most common types of) clothing material would be _extreamly_ helpful for consumers in general and wikipedia readers in particular, along the lines of a list of say the top 4 to 10 types of fabric like:
"**13.5 ounce fabric cotton denim generally: (protection factor goes here)
..." including for some non-cotton commonly used fabrics, etc..
and so forth. (these are from real items from a certain online retailer whose name I need not mention since I'm not a clothes expert and needed real examples) That would be so useful to know how well they compare (even roughly, no need to be perfectly exact) to one another so people can have the info they need (an encyclopedia needs to be relevant to what's useful in people's lives including non-academic, practical lives) and knowing how this or that particular fabric compares to say a 15 SPF lotion on bare skin, etc, would be a very helpful comparison to know (I seem to recall reading somewhere that most clothes are better b studies etc...) Thanks to anyone who can add such useful info to this wikipedia entry.
That would make it far less commercial AND far far more useful to wikipedia readers. Harel 02:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Am I the only one coming to this article asking this question? The most important thing to add to his article would be to list peer reviewed studies (and possibly summarize results in a table) of how regular clothing compares with SPF clothing. I have never heard of anyone getting a sunburn through normal cotton clothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.61.205.59 ( talk) 14:49, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Belated thanks for all the comments above. I just added the following to the Sunscreen and Sun protective clothing articles:
Hope this helps, at least as a start. — Patrug ( talk) 23:50, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
References