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impact on wikipedia of our low levels of representation by certain groups of people, such as women. I thought to myself, "what categories of article might we be missing on wikipedia due to lack of female editors?" and the first thing that came to mind was the "domestic sciences" - home economics, cleaning, childcare, etc. I found out about Bar Keeper's Friend a couple years ago and when I posted about it on my blog a bunch of people spoke up about it, so it came to mind as a useful piece of domestic science knowledge that should be here. I was actually surprised that on my first guess I found a fairly worthy topic - a reliable household & service industry product that's been around for over a hundred years - that was missing from wikipedia. There are pages for Comet and Ajax; why would this be any less appropriate? I tried to balance the article by including the warning against using it on real marble, pewter, and silver. I have no financial relationship with the Bar
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violations of policy but the basic fact remains that this is a non-notable product, not the sole source of oxalic acid, has nothing to do with
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Whether or not it is intended to be so, this article is 100 per cent commercial advertisement, therefore should be rapidly deleted. If there were an article on "Cleaning
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