Talk:Teflon (disambiguation)

DO NOT REDIRECT

As DuPont now uses the trademark Teflon for many products, not just Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), this page should not redirect there. However, it should be changed to a disambiguation page.66.10.94.39 18:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that there's now no article to direct links that refer to the trademark. We have articles for the singer and the song, and for the three specific chemicals, but no article Teflon (brand name). It seems to me that redirecting that title to Non-stick surface#Teflon would be a good idea, but there seems to be some objection to this approach. --Russ (talk) 20:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Surely there should be a page on the Teflon organisation, including details of their products and the controversy surrounding the chemicals used in the production of their non-stick materials. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.114.226.174 (talk) 11:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Russ. The current situation presents an unsolvable disabiguation problem. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 21:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There should be an article on Teflon (plastic) which should discuss or at least mention the DuPont products with the name Teflon in them, namely Teflon-TFE, Teflon-PFA, and Teflon-FEP. This would be in addition to the Polytetrafluoroethylene article, which should be written as a generic polymer article. Who knows if or when I would ever get around to writing such an article, although previously I fancied the thought. H Padleckas (talk) 03:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the term "teflon" should bring you to what most people expect, that is the plastic. OMichalek 147.230.120.183 (talk) 17:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal

How about this? Let's

Move this page (back) to Teflon (disambiguation).
Make a new page here that says, in essence, Teflon is a trademark of DuPont applied at present to 3 types of fluorine-containing polymers, all marketed for their low-friction properties. Then itemise the 3, with wikilinks to the pages for the compounds. Finally an otheruses link to the aforementioned Teflon (disambiguation).
Clean up the dab page to link nicely to the new page for the trademark.
Clean up the backlinks.

I'll be happy to do the work, but I'd like to air the proposal first rather than just do it and then get reverted or worse. Feel free to comment here or on my talk page as you prefer. --AndrewHowse (talk) 17:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. Simple and direct. As long as the otheruses is there of course. Keeper | 76 18:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent suggestion. For those of you who may not be familiar with the work of the disambiguation project, the current structure makes it almost impossible to properly disambiguate links to this page. If an article contains a link to "teflon" right now, that's a link to a dab page. Such links are deprecated. How can anyone possibly disambiguate that? --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 19:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for your quick support. --AndrewHowse (talk) 20:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great. Hope it "sticks" (pun intended. :-). Do you want assistance going through the original disam project for Teflon to be sure that they are meant for the DuPont substance and not the nickname, band, etc? Glad to help if you want. Keeper | 76 21:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I looked at the first 50; 49 were fine and 1 listed a seemingly bogus inventor of the darn stuff. After that I previewed the rest. I probably missed a couple that should be fixed, so if you had the time and will to check some, then that would be very kind of you. --AndrewHowse (talk) 21:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, six colons to start this sentence...crazy - about Teflon? Ha, I love this place. Anyway, I went through the entire list. Nothing I saw with mine-own-eyes needed a fix sans one that I fixed. Great work with this AndrewHowse. Keeper | 76 21:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great...thank you for taking this on and making sense out of it! Let me know if you need any other help! Legotech (talk) 07:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like it at all. All I wanted was to know about teflon in general, and now I have to search three different articles just to find some useful information... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.157.159 (talk) 09:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Two other products by Du Pont"

There are actually 6 polymers currently under the tradename Teflon: AF, FEP, FPR, NXT, PFA and of course PTFE. 82.10.236.187 (talk) 10:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]