Talk:Zinc pest

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[edit] speedy deletion

The first paragraph is a statement of what zinc pest is. I will delete the scientific explanation, which is all that was cribbed from http://www-personal.umich.edu/~khmiska/zinkpest.htm. Hopefully a metallurgist will find this article and flesh things out. The second paragraph is simply a summary of what is widely known among collectors of radios, toys, and other die-cast objects. Frotz 10:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems that all this is unwarranted. The Kinslayer, who put the speedy-deletion tag here said the following on his talk page shortly after I asked him why he removed the tag. Frotz 10:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I was mistaken in placing it in the first place, as it turns it out that it didn't actually constitute a copyvio as it was :re-worded. The Kinslayer 10:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

NB: pest means roughly "plague" (as in The Black Plague, Yersinia pestis, also for other infectious or parasitical ailments which spread easily and are hard to cure/destroy: Schweinepest, Zinnpest) It does not primarily mean pests (animals you don't like) as in "those bugs that are eating my potatoes" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.253.2.234 (talk) 09:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)