Talk:Laundry mark

This redirect should be deleted

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This redirect ought to be deleted. Quite simply it points to a page that in no way relates to what laundry marks were, and in some places still are. Moreover, I can find no appropriate wikiarticle to which to change the target of the redirect. A laundry mark is a mark made by a commercial launderer on a garment, tablecloth, etc., to indicate either where and when it was laundered, or for whom it was laundered. It is not a care symbol. Here are three things which illustrate this:

• "What is a laundry mark?". The Straight Dope Message Board. The Straight Dope. November 2000. Retrieved November 15, 2021. [A] laundry mark is a mark made on clothing to identify it when it is laundered (in a commercial laundry, not in a personal washing machine or laundromat) {{cite web}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
• Chaddock, Don (May 23, 2018). "1870s stagecoach bandit Black Bart reforms, learns job skills". California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Retrieved November 15, 2021. On the handkerchief was a laundry mark, which was the means of securing his arrest. … The investigators found a launderer with that mark in San Francisco on Bush Street. From there, they discovered the owner of the handkerchief was 'C.E. Bolton,' who was staying at a nearby hotel. … … It was a long chase but Black Bart was finally run down with the aid of a simple laundry mark.
• Dominguez, Robert (November 2, 2021). "How NYC detectives pieced together the case of a dismembered body scattered throughout the city". New York Daily News. Retrieved November 15, 2021. On the neckband was a faded laundry mark with a coded number indicating where the garment had been washed. Detectives began a painstaking search for the cleaners and soon hit paydirt.

Thanks! — SpikeToronto 17:03, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

I think you are quite correct. (For info - The tag number on the laundry mark at my boarding school in the sixties was SB687) It's astonishing what triggers a memory. -Roxy the dog. wooF 00:32, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. I should add that the redirect is "harmful" because it takes one to an article that has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic and, consequently, will serve primarily to create confusion. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 10:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
P.P.S. There is only one article linked to this redirect (verify). Thanks! — SpikeToronto 10:52, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Laundry mark" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Laundry mark. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 16#Laundry mark until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. — SpikeToronto 11:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)