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Necktie was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 8, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 14, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

Graphs for width and length

I think two graphs would fit in well in the history section from the 1920s onward, showing the changes in regular width and length over the years respectively. According to the section, ties were wide in the 1920s, the 1940s, and the 1970s, about regular in the 1980s and 1990s, and extra-slim in the 1950s up to the mid-1960s and again since about the late 2000s. --2003:71:4E3F:3390:89F5:A5B8:5FA:E638 (talk) 10:14, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

Shouldn't School tie merge into Necktie#Ties_as_a_sign_of_membership? PPEMES (talk) 23:31, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I believe it is fine to cite a few sentences describing the school tie in support of the subject of this section. However, it deserves its own page since it is an important element in British education and has significant coverage. Integrating the contents from that page would also bloat this particular section. It is acceptable to create a subheading for the British school tie under it but it would create an imbalance for the other entries. What this section needs are contents that will show how the necktie is used to indicate membership in other cases not just British or Commonwealth schools. Darwin Naz (talk) 23:49, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The same as Darwin Naz. Also as this is a British English topic - it should use British English. Necktie is an Am Eng concept. Leave be and improve.--ClemRutter (talk) 22:32, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Break into two pages?

It seems that there are two pages worth of content here: History of the necktie and the Necktie should really be two different pages. There is just too much content here, and it needs to be delineated and differentiated. This will be a tough cookie to unscramble, but I think I'll be spending a bit of time here this month. Guylaen (talk) 19:20, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, what I'm more considering now is canceling the redirect for Neckwear, and adding an encyclopedic history to that page, especially moving the bulk of content regarding cravats over there. I think this will take me a couple of weeks to complete. Guylaen (talk) 11:04, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]