Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overpackaging

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep‎. Editors' consensus is that this topic is sufficiently distinct from packaging waste and packaging and that WP:GNG is met. (non-admin closure) Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:25, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Overpackaging

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This is essentially a POV fork of packaging waste, which itself can be seen as a POV fork of Packaging. Qwirkle (talk) 23:49, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Overpackaging is a legitimate article. First discussion was in Packaging waste but it became clear that there was sufficient material for a separate article.

Both the Packaging and the Technology wikiprojsects have rated this as a C.

The article has many excellent citations, indicating that this is an important subject. Some citations are highly technical.

Constructive input from other editors is welcome. Pkgx (talk) 01:06, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Business, Environment, and Technology. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:41, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is significant coverage of overpackaging as a concept. Packaging waste is not the same thing: it results from any packaging, even minimal, and is also a topic that is addressed in many sources. For coverage about overpackaging, for example - here's an article about Korea penalising department stores and large supermarkets that overpackage goods: [1], and another about penalising excessive packaging for parcels: [2]. Here's an article about calls to cut back overpackaging in Taiwan: [3]. A couple of other articles about excessive packaging of parcels by online sellers: [4], [5]. This US Senate hearing from 1961 on Packaging and Labeling Practices (page 204) [6] explains that one reason for overpackaging is to stop goods being stolen. The Proceedings of the 2016 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) World Marketing Congress has an article "Is it really worthwhile for a brand to eliminate overpackaging?" [7]. It certainly meets WP:GNG with significant coverage in reliable sources over a long period of time. RebeccaGreen (talk) 11:27, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per RebeccaGreen. They are not the same thing: the packaging Amazon use, for example, is a different discussion to that concerning their alleged overpackaging. Serial (speculates here) 19:16, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.