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"Portable hand-held communications inscriber" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Please add a link to the pencil case Wikipedia article; it is extremely disheartening that this is not already included. You can simply state the following "Pencils can be stored in pencil cases.", see link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_case. It's as simple as that!

Thank you, Bigbubba1231251241321 Bigbubba1231251241321 (talk) 00:28, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: No actual improvement of adding this text. Lemonaka (talk) 07:34, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

altering the definition at the beginning of the article.[edit]

by the definition at the beginning of the article crayon with a wapper would be a pencil. Rguyr (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fractional grades[edit]

In her preface to The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan writes "I bought mechanical pencils in two gradations, .54B and .72B, ones that produced dark lines. I later added .3HB and .9 HB." This article covers only integral B values, and HB is just HB, unnumbered. Is Tan mistaken or are her pencils (she doesn't state the brand) graded according to an alternate scheme that the article should cover? Largoplazo (talk) 12:15, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]