Talk:Wrap rage

message: Would this be appropriate for inclusion in the article proper? I feel it makes a point, but I didn't want to be too bold about using my own work. -Nahum Reduta (talk) 05:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is he trying to get the knife out of the package, using the knife to get something else out of the package, or trying to use the package with the knife in it to do something to whatever's on the counter under the package?  I'm not quite sure what's going on in that photo. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 03:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

text: He's using the package to cut the bread instead of opening the package to remove the knife and use the knife. Bombcar (talk) 20:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Informal photo

message: This is the most ridiculous article on Wikipedia.
Thank you.
--Mwongozi (talk) 21:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And now Amazon links to it.davewho2 (talk) 02:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From their Main page, no less! Lithoderm (talk) 05:05, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What?! 

message: Is there any reports of manufacturers or warehouse owners being responsible for any physical injury from packages being economicly compensated?, even the perforated packages have sharp edges. Electron9 (talk) 22:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure; I haven't come across any. If there are any examples of wrap rage-related legal issues as a motivation for manufacturers changing their packaging, though, that could be helpful. tktktk 23:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal liability? 

message: How is this on Wikipedia? How is this even close to being a serious article? Pages on purple drank and Steven Slater are ridiculous, but this just takes it to the next level. I'm pretty sure Wrap rage isn't even a real thing outside of Wikipedia, and it definitely doesn't deserve to have any more than a mention on this site. Candidate for deletion, anyone? Pstephan23 (talk) 22:59, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's on Wikipedia because it meets Wikipedia policy for neologisms - the article cites plenty of sources that refer to the phenomenon, with usage going back six years, showing that it's a "real thing outside of Wikipedia". --McGeddon (talk) 09:27, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah this is pretty much the dumbest shit I've ever read...only in America.--24.119.67.52 (talk) 09:37, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, this is a serious technical problem, a practical problem for consumers, and a feeling experienced all too frequently. It belongs right here.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:11, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this deserves a dedicated article. Wrap rage should be a definition on wiktionary and the article merged into a subsection of the Packaging and labeling article. Besides, the entire article reeks of original research. Southsailor (talk) 02:11, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Where do you see original research? I can only find a couple of sentences that aren't sourced. --McGeddon (talk) 08:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This does not belong on Wikipedia. 

message: A survey in Yours, a magazine aimed at people over 50, found that 99% of the 2,000 respondents said packaging had become harder to open over the last 10 years, 97% said there was "too much excess packaging", and 60% said they had bought a product designed to more easily open packaging.
This is a survey about packaging in general. As the survey is aimed at over 50's the causal factor should be considered to be age, not the packaging. I will remove if no one has an objection. E2daipi (talk) 02:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly age is a factor in those statistics. The point is to show that excess packaging may be an especially big problem for people over 50. I don't see an issue with pointing out that a certain demographic is particularly affected. —tktktk 02:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this have to do with the article? 

message: Wrap rage just seems like a term that fits nicely onto one instance of rage, which, in a broader scope, is nothing more than one of the many many frustrated reactions to technology that we encounter every day.  Is there anything unique about this kind of rage other than its source?  What about when the wireless router stops working and a person doesn't know what to do about it, and they start yelling and screaming?  Is that router rage?  Or when people beat on their computers when they freeze or lag?  Computer rage?  Do both of those things need separate articles because they are rage with different mundane origins?  If there is anything unique about this form of rage or forms like it, it's that it shows how impatient people have become and how much they need instant gratification; such that they break down emotionally when they can't get their prize out of the middle of a package that can be opened easily with anything other than their own hands.  Let's delete this article, and others like it.
redelephantlabel (talk) 12:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: All that's required for a topic to have an article on Wikipedia is that it meet the guidelines for notability – that it is, that it has significant coverage in reliable sources. Based on the references on this article, I think wrap rage certainly meets that criterion. By the way, we actually do have an article on computer rage. —tktktk 04:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

text: The article draws on 18 published newspaper and magazine sources dating from 2006 to 2011, it has not been made up by Wikipedia editors. --McGeddon (talk) 11:13, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I really think this article is unnecessary 

message: I'm not sure that the 'rage' adjective is appropriate, but the safety aspects of this style of packaging certainly deserve investigation by ROSPA or whoever. Some sources claim 6,000 people a year are injured trying to open such packages. I know I've had some near-misses myself.
In the UK, the situation is worsened by the carrying of a safe tool for doing this kind of job being outlawed by knife controls. 
Perhaps one of the worst aspects is that the manufacturers offer no advised procedure for opening the packaging, leaving the buyer to try to improvise something with whatever tools are to-hand. That would seem to indicate a lack of due diligence, and therefore liability. --Anteaus (talk) 13:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very real problem, not silly article at all.