Talk:Tipp-Ex

Tipp-Ex origin Germany

According to the archives of the city of Eltville (Germany) the first Tipp-Ex company was foundet in Eltville in 1959 by Wolfgang Dabisch. The company founded by Otto W. Carls in Frankfurt was named ‘Tipp-Ex Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG’. ‘Vertrieb’ means distribution and ‘GmbH & Co. KG’ describes a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner.

Shortly after that the production of Tipp-Ex moved from Eltville to Frankfurt due to the fast growth of the company. But Tipp-Ex was invented and produced in Eltville in the first place.

If nobody objects within the next few days, I am going to change that in the article. For more information read the German Wikipedia article on Tipp-Ex.

--Knirgsgnut (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

After more than 8 month without any objection, I changed the article. --Knirgsgnut (talk) 14:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Now it says the company was founded in 1979, but it launched a correction fluid in 1965...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.137.100.230 (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Latin

Is "ex" latin for "no more"? I thought it was "out of" as in "out of nothing"="ex nihilo". perhaps it should read "blah blah... and ex is a common prefix meaning no more". either that or change the wikipedia page for "ex" to say it could mean "out of" or "no more".

Triangl 22:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Verb

The article claims: "(Tipp-Ex) has become so popular that it has become a genericised trademark because the verb to tippex means to erase." Does this verb exist in English? It most certainly doesn't in German. I'll remove the bit about the verb and leave the (correct) rest. --Dr. Zarkov 20:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I hear it all the time. This is what happens when something becomes a genericized trademark. The edit in question has been undone. Ae-a 08:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Where do you hear it? Are you in the US? I've never heard it used (noun or verb) in the US. 211.225.34.179 (talk) 07:56, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

confusion with Israeli pop group

I was looking at an article about Israeli hip-hop group, Hadag Nachash, and in it, another popular Israeli band was mentioned: Teapacks. In the article, it was spelled Tipex, and was linked to this page, regardless of the fact that the two are not related. Teapacks are ,as I said, an Israeli pop group (probably) best known for their song "Yoshvim B'beit Cafe" which means "sitting in a cafe". If you want to hear some of what the group has done I suggest going to this page: http://www.israel-music.com/teapacks/. I think that a disambiguation page would be useful, or something of that sort. Unfortunately, I am not skilled enough with Wikipedia to do this by myself, so I leave it up to you, the reader of this comment. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.68.197.51 (talk) 19:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC).

An article about Teapacks has finally been added to the English WIkipedia. I've added a Template:Otheruses4 to the top of the artice to disambiguate the two.

White Christmas

According to a swedish friend, the "white christmas" tippex cocktail is fictional, part of a joke on a swedish TV show called "I manegen med Glenn Killing på Berns?". I'm not swedish so wont remove it, but if this sounds accurate to any swedish editors, maybe it should be changed to make it clear this was a joke and not a real drink. -- taviso 13:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Popularity

I am from Indonesia, and I know that tipp-ex has become the generic word for correction fluid. Even though there are many correction fluid brands, and they never mention "tipp-ex", people everywhere call it "tipp-ex", just as if we mention Honda instead of cars. How about other country? Olentz 15:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Tipp-Ex is virtually unknown in the United States. "Wite Out" is the generic noun and verb in these parts. Oddly, though "Liquid Paper" predated both of these, which makes the history part of this article seem like bad ad-copy for Tipp-Ex. 67.41.217.135 (talk) 13:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Bette Nesmith Graham...

Is Tipp Ex the brian child of Bette Nesmith Graham (who invented Liquid Paper and gave birth to Michael Nesmith)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamberdoor (talk • contribs) 18:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Ayrshire ban?

This must be wrong - in 1988 education was run by Strathclyde Regional Council (until abolished in 1996). After 1996, historic Ayrshire was covered by 3 unitary councils. Can anyone reference this story? Robofw9 (talk) 12:18, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Strathclyde was divded into divisions such as Glasgow, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire etc, and education was managed at divisional level, so it could well have been the Ayrshire division of Strathclyde Region. Jonbryce (talk) 19:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I removed the Strathclyde part, because no reference found, and also not important in the article overall LeniGC (talk) 08:29, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

It may be a daft question, but why did the claim stay on Wikipedia for so long?PortholePete (talk) 15:00, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

YouTube 2010

The part about some bear-campsite-shooting-etc. going viral doesn't seem to show any relevance to Tipp-Ex at all. A link is required to the actual video, and also the text could do with some rephrasing that may make it more relevant to the product. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.8.232 (talk) 18:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

"Aqua"/"solvent-free"

In addition to the traditional solvent-based options Tippex also produces a water-based product. IIRC this used to be marketed as "solvent-free" and is now marketed as "eco-soloutions aqua" while the solvent-based stuff (which dries much quicker) is now marketed as "rapid". Last time I tried the solvent-free stuff it was pretty crappy but that was a long time ago. Anyone have any good sources on this and fancy adding a bit on it to the article. Plugwash (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Video Graphic

I won't do it, but I would recommend removing the video graphic as it is highly distracting due to its rapid, erratic, repeating movements. Additionally, I don't believe that it adds much to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.98.246.9 (talk) 12:12, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

I removed it as it counts as original research, one of three things Wikipedia does not allow.PortholePete (talk) 09:56, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG link

The link in the first paragraph refers to a "Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG" but links to the Wikipedia article on "Société Bic." Said article makes no reference to Tipp-Ex. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.83.219.252 (talk) 22:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC)