Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eaton's Corrasable Bond

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The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 04:28, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eaton's Corrasable Bond

Non-notable brand of typing paper. Of the many brands of typing paper that have existed over the years, and indeed of the several types of erasable paper, this is not particularly notable. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 16:13, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

• Weak keep. Article needs improvement. Would be better as a redirect to an article on erasable typewriter paper in general. Erasable typewriter paper was an important technology in the 1950s and 1960s and my recollection is that in the United States Eaton's Corrasable truly was the dominant brand, and a "genericized" tradename like Kleenex or Scotch tape. Big stationary stores might carry other brands but always carried Corrasable, and any store that carried typing paper at all would be likely to have it. It was pretty much superseded by opaquing technogies like Ko-Rec-Type and Wite-Out and Liquid Paper and "correcting Selectrics." As a grad student I still remember the excitement when a colleague brought us the news that the university would now accept photocopied theses as long as they were photocopied onto 100%-rag paper. That meant we could type our theses on Corrasable Bond and photocopy them onto thesis paper for submission! As of 2005 is the stuff even manufactured? A search on www.staples.com for "corrasable" yields no hits, while one on "Eaton" yields 35, most apparently relevant. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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