Talk:Retractable pen

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

keep, 26 January 2015, see discussion.
no consensus, 10 November 2014, see discussion.
no consensus, 20 April 2012 (UTC), see discussion.

This article was selected as the article for improvement on 25 July 2022 for a period of one week.

Possible Sources[edit]

--Coin945 (talk) 09:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most of those are not actually potential sources, they are merely stuff on websites, not reliably published sources. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:46, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There were retractable ballpoint pens in approx the mid 40s, by at least the firms Eversharp and Sheaffer, I don't know the fine details but I have seen pictures of their adverts. I definately don't think this page should be deleted because there is a big interest in pens but it needs work for those that come here to learn this aspect of pen history Middle More Rider (talk) 17:44, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't an article on retractable pens though, it's an article on pen clicking. Twice it has avoided deletion by simply being renamed, yet it still has nothing in this article about what is supposed to be its topic. How is that a useful article to the encyclopedia, an article on a non-notable topic, hiding itself under the wrong name? Andy Dingley (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's certainly true. I saw the article for the first time today just by chance, so wasn't aware of its history Middle More Rider (talk) 22:33, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Temple Grandin[edit]

In the film Temple Grandin, the titular character, who has autism, encounters an academic who has a pen clicking habit, which appears to trigger her Sound Sensitivity.[3]

Arguing in favor of being allowed to do a certain research project, she grabs a pen and a clipboard, starts clicking, and says "I have a pen and a clipboard too!" --Guy Macon (talk) 00:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing This Page[edit]

Looking at this page, it is a complete mess. It boasts tons of so-called "sources", but just a cursory glance at them shows that the vast majority of them are from completely unreliable sources (IE, random humor articles, facebook pages, etc) and thus the information that was taken from them is not usable for an article. It kind of looks like the sources were found by someone googling the phrase "Pen Clicking" and then copying anything that came up, regardless on how reliable it was (or in some cases, things that actually had nothing to do with the article in question). I'm doing my best going through this and removing all of the nonsensical, unreliably soured trivia, but its going to be a lot of work, and large portions of the article are pretty much going to need a complete rewrite. Any help would be appreciated! 64.183.45.226 (talk) 18:17, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, so at this point, I think I've pretty much removed all of the "sources" that were flat out uncontroversially unreliable source. At this point, though, the harder work is left, which is going through the remaining sources and figuring out which ones are actually non-trivial mentions of the subject matter. Just looking briefly, it looks like a lot of them do not, in fact, have anything to do with the subject of "pen clicking", and just happens to mention that phrase off hand in the context of a completely different subject. Additionally, the whole article pretty much is going to have to be rewritten in a form that actually looks like an encyclopedia article, rather than its current form, which could pretty much be described as a list of times the phrase "pen clicking" has been used. 64.183.45.226 (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Patents for the retractable pen[edit]

It would be useful if the article contained references to, or images of pen patents like the following: [this patent from 1954] [this patent from 1975] [And this patent from 1974] Daniel Smith Jr (talk) 07:14, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. US Patent US6193429B1 from 1999 "Tip mechanism for knock-type ballpoint pen" also seems relevant. --DavidCary (talk) 23:29, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]