Talk:Chifforobe

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Chiffarobe → Chifforobe – Chifforobe is the more common spelling (acc. to the Merriam Webster Collegiate, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Google searches). Potosino 12:30, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

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This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Vegaswikian 05:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

This article is very strange. It appears to be a one-paragraph description of a certain type of wooden furniture, followed by many paragraphs citing occasions that the furniture has been mentioned in literature. The Wikipedia page for "eggplant" does not feel a need to mention any literary references. Why is this one so obsessed with them? I question both the encyclopedic nature and the relevance of this content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.70.238 (talk) 22:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree with the above. The "In Popular Culture" section adds nothing of any particular encyclopedic value to the article and should be omitted. Would any other editors like to comment on the subject? Rent249 (talk)

possible cites

Most references to chifforobes and their 1908 appearance in the Sears catalog seem to be mirrors of this article. The absence of references in this article will be difficult to fix as we can never know whether we are looking at a wiki reflection.

Patricia Wiggins, who seems to be a credible expert on antiquing, defines the term here: http://antiques.about.com/od/furniture/a/aa082300.htm

User Potosino added the Sears connection and other material in October of 2006 that appears to have sourced here:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-chifforobe.htm

I didn't add this reference because a] I am uncertain as to how authoritative these sources would be considered, and b] I wonder whether the extent of Potosino's borrowings from that site may constitute copyright concerns. Bustter (talk) 23:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

A reproduction of the 1908 sears catalog, although OP, is available used through Amazon for a few dollars (almost 1200 pages--a bargain!). It is surely in the public domain. I may at some point buy one to republish it as an e-book; if I do I will surely donate a scan of the chifforobe page (assuming that the article is accurate and the copy described, or something equaly of interest, appears). Bustter (talk) 23:51, 26 October 2009 (UTC)