Talk:Windex

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Windex is a miraculous glasses and surface cleaning product that has many medical uses. It has been reported that Windex can even remove acne in less than a day.

"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a great movie, but it's hardly a medical authority. Stormwriter

We could mention the running joke in My Big Fat Greek Wedding in which the main character's father applied Windex to everything, in the belief that, etc. --Ed Poor

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This is an advertisement and not needed. Ortolan88

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As can be seen from the edit history Jerzy made substantial additions to this page, much of which was removed by Anthony DiPierro with no explanation beyond an edit summary of "wikipedia is not a dictionary". I've gone back to Jerzy's version, and copyedited it somewhat. If anyone disagrees with parts of it, please discuss it on this talk page in the normal way, or feel free to make contructive edits. I see no gain in making a stub shorter. - IMSoP 23:03, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Actually the edits you made for the most part seem fine. The last sentence seems POV though: "This most likely did not refer to the brand, but to the type of product: it is likely that viewers would have noticed if the solution shown was not blue, but would not have noticed whether it was in fact labelled Windex®." I'll probably remove it.

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Windolene

Should this possibly read "Windolene Crystal" or "Spray Windolene"? I ask because of the vividly memorable "Wipe it on, Windolene; Wipe it off, window clean" scene in "The Knack and How to Get It", where the joke is that the Glass Wax-type product is being used not to clean the windows but to render them opaque by never removing it. I suppose Windolene may include both Windex-like and Glass-Wax-like products in one line, as opposed to my impression of them as competitors in the U.S. How many Yanks who know of Windolene think of Windex rather than Glass Wax? --Jerzy (t) 16:37, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Toxicity?

Is Windex toxic? — JIP | Talk 10:53, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes - but not very. You need to keep this in perspective - the toxic dose of table salt (LD-50 for an adult) is about half a cup. The LD-50 for 80 proof liquor is less than a quart. External use of Windex shouldn't present a problem - it's about 3% solvent, but even on an open wound, it's more likely to kill bacteria than to hurt you. The surfactant is sodium laurel sulfate, which is found in some toiletries. The solvents are poisons, but you're not likely to get enough to significanly hurt you before you decided that it tastes terrible, and spit it out. You wouldn't want to get it in your eyes. ClairSamoht 14:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

• So if I eat half a cup of table salt I'll die? How much is quart in units the rest of the world uses? JIP | Talk 14:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

A quart is 4 cups or 0.95L[1]. The LD-50 is the dose that will kill 50% of the population. -SCEhardT 15:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Dates

Can we get some verification on dates for this article? 1992 seems a bit late for a production start date as I recall using windex in the 80's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.17.190.121 (talk)

I think the date is intended as the start of production by S C Johnson, since the history section says it was invented in 1933. The article needs a clearer connection of events leading from invention to first production to current ownership. I looked briefly on the Windex website and didn't see this info. -SCEhardT 20:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

History verification

For the product history section, I'm not sure where the first two paragraphs came from in terms of info. Surely the original adder can verify these sources? They do happen to be extremely specific. Cerealchan 03:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

-SC Johnson acquired the product in '92, but it was owned by a previous company before it was bought out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.162.54.26 (talk) 02:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Frank Sinatra

What does Frank Sinatra have to do with Windex?

"All This And Heaven Too" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "Only Forever" (by Allan Storr) / "Trade Winds" (10) "The World Is In My Arms"

***"Blue Skies" / "Backstage At The Ballet" (instrumental)***

"Light A Candle In The Chapel" (21) "Night and Day" "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'"

***"Ol' Man River" / "Stormy Weather" ***

"You'll Never Walk Alone" "You are too Beautiful"

***"I Only Have Eyes For You" ***

"Love Means Love"

***"The Birth of the Blues" ***

"I've Got the World on a String" "Young at Heart" "Someone to Watch over Me" "All the Way" "Love and Marriage"

• • • "Come Rain or Come Shine"***
    • "It Was a Very Good Year" ***
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    • "You Make Me Feel So Young" ***

"My Way"********* "Teach Me Tonight" "Lady Day"

Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award

Winners:

  1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer)
  2. "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer)
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
  4. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
  5. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Mercer, Hoagy 

Carmichael)

  6. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain)
  7. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
  8. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar 

Hammerstein II)

  9. "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad)
 10. "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" (Webster, Fain)
 11. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.126.144 (talk) 07:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC) 

Reorganized

I think it reads easier and more encyclopedic for visitors. 70.92.132.205 (talk) 19:19, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

"Window Lickers"

What the hell is this? Am I missing something?OptimistInChief (talk) 22:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC) Deleted the vandalized area, as every edit containing that phrase was within the last day.OptimistInChief (talk) 22:18, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

WINDEX

The WINDEX Wind Direction Indicator from Windex Development AB. user:suwa 21:52, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

References

Unverified claims in article

Hey there, I was writing an article about the history of window-washing and Windex, and spotted what appears to be an unverified claim/potential falsehood in this article about Windex.

It appears that someone made an unverified claim that Windex was originally sold in metal cans and was flammable—and that it stayed this way until after World War II. However, looking through old newspaper ads and early magazine coverage of this topic, there is clear evidence that Windex used glass bottles and plastic spray nozzles as early as the late 1930s, and advertising specifically exists that claims the chemical is inflammable from as early as 1943—that is, before World War II had even ended. Metal containers (like the image displayed on Wikipedia) were used, but only starting in the 1950s, when an aerosol version of Windex (initially called Blue Mist Windex) was introduced.

This claim, which appears to have been added back in 2006 with no sourcing, is unverified, but it has shown up in books and other legitimate sources since, giving it weight without the authority of proper sourcing to support it.

I don't feel that I should update the post personally as I don't want to be the one to link to my article, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of anyone watching the article in hopes that they can either properly verify the claims or take them down. — Ernie at Tedium (talk) 15:37, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm a big fan of Tedium! I read the newsletter yesterday wondering why you hadn't just edited the article. Now I understand. I'm not sure if we can link to Tedium as a source, but since the claims about metal cans and flammability don't have a reference I'll delete them now. Andrew³²⁷ 16:22, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I try to be very careful about things like that just because I know how it can come across as self-promotional, when the goal of the edit is more to ensure accuracy. I was particularly concerned when I went into Google Books and found references to the cans being metal and the Windex being flammable making it into print books that were produced after the 2006 reference was added. Glad to help, and glad to have you as a reader :) — Ernie at Tedium (talk) 17:54, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Around here we call that citogenesis. Andrew³²⁷ 21:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Book and other indexes

Arriving at a name for the formulae involved the "per se" concept as well as the means to provide a cumulative index for such publications as the World Book Encyclopedia (1966). 'W' translates to 'w' interrogative (what, why, when, where, and sometimes how). Index involves the human brain's capability to sequence. Hence, "word index". 12.222.119.100 (talk) 16:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)