Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brown envelope

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Some weird cross of trivia, original research and a dictionary definition. Maybe wiktionary would take it.-Wafulz 16:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brown envelope

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary - this article exists solely to define a term. EyeSerene^TALK 12:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. It's an envelope and it's brown; there's not much more to say. --kingboyk 12:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Hopeless. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete for Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary and lack of real notability. Darkspots 15:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Words fail me on this one... Next week's article: White envelope. Trusilver 16:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete agree with the above. Acalamari 18:20, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep The article uses a connotation that is useful: " It is used in and known in government, business and popular culture as a means to deliver concealed material - bribe money, secret papers or any sort of "under the table" transfer." It is more than a definition. I read a statement on another site about an issue being a "brown envelope" issue which I did not undertand until I came to wikipedia. Thanks.— Rotallad (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Of course brown envelopes are used to deliver concealed material, generally the only other option is a white envelope which, being white, aren't as concealing as brown envelopes. And you needed a Wikipedia article to tell you that? I've never heard of a "brown envelope issue" either, I think you made that up. Masaruemoto 01:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete; useless. Masaruemoto 01:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep; it can be expanded.GalacticExplorer 19:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep, rename to brown kraft envelope and do more work on the article. I have added more information about the correct name, at least in the US, for these. Brown kraft envelopes are a specific class of envelopes. They are made from paper that uses the Kraft process, hence the more correct name of brown kraft envelope. In some ways using brown is redundant, however kraft envelopes are now available in other colors, so maybe that is not entirely correct. I'd get some references but I'm rather busy right now. However, a simple search in any US office supply catalog for kraft envelope will bring up numerous matches. Vegaswikian 22:08, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

  comment - I'm sorry, I'm just unsure where you are trying to go with this. Are your intentions to expand this to other office supplies as well? We can have an article for black bic pens, and black papermate pens and then also the blue bic pens. I'm sorry, but is there really anything that could be placed in this article change you are proposing that either isn't already in Kraft process or could be put in that article? If I'm missing something then say it, I would be happy to change this to a 'keep' position if there was anything here to warrant an article. Right now there's not. Trusilver 02:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.