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There's a Ridgid pinup calendar in the back room of The Sawhorse bar in season 3,episode 2 of True Detective. I thought it looked too recent to be in that scene, but I see they've been putting out pinup calendars for quite a while. A timeline for the evolution of their logo would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichSPK (talk • contribs) 06:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notability and tone

Was this article written by a third grader? Terrible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.20.19 (talk) 05:28, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing in this article that establishes sufficient notability and the article is written like an advertisement. Roger (talk) 14:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article really isn't written very well, but RIDGID is huge. Check any trade publication on plumbing. I would hazard a guess that more people own/use tools made by RIDGID than, say, have downloaded and use scribus. I'm not interested enough to edit the article, but if you bothered to check, you would easily establish notability. 70.95.252.87 (talk) 05:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are mistaken about how the notability requirement on Wikipedia works. As a reader I should not have to check outside the article itself for a reason why the subject is notable. Notability must be established in the first paragraph of every article. On a more personal note - I have never seen any evidence at all that this company/brand exists, the same goes for Scribus. I believe you may be mistaken about just how "huge" the company/brand is - it ain't no Coca Cola or Microsoft. I suspect you may be falling into the trap of thinking only in terms of the US. WP has a global readership. It's not my problem if RIGID has no presence or representation in South Africa. Roger (talk) 11:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On a "more personal note?" So now some combination of ignorance, seclusion and possibly memory loss (or equivalently, years of heavy drinking) is criteria for removing an article from Wikipedia? I guess I missed the memo on that one. Is that WP:OnlyThingsShutinsLivingInSouthAfricaHaveHeardOf? What's your GDP, anyway? Like $6 and some cattle? It "ain't no" California, that's for sure. Someone should wipe the page; it isn't worthy of inclusion in our esteemed Wikipedia. Same goes for Azerbaijan. I guarantee the vast majority of Americans have never heard of Azerbaijan, so why have a Wiki page? People like you are great in that you manage to singularly encompass everything that is wrong with Wikipedia philosophically. A page about a company does not equate to "shilling." So how do you decide whether a company is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, anyway? Is RIDGID worthy of inclusion because it's a division of a Fortune 500 company, Emerson? Or is it worthy of inclusion because any plumber will know the brand? I don't know crap about baking. Should I go nominate a manufacturer of baking equipment for deletion? Alternatively, would you actually be in favor of removing Scribus from Wikipedia? It seems to me as though you must if you're going to be consistent in your rhetoric. C'mon, nominate the page for deletion. I dare you. It'll stay up. Know why? Because it belongs in Wikipedia, like so many other things. Your complaint is that the article is poorly written. I agree and am unmotivated to fix it. But that doesn't mean it isn't worthy of inclusion. It means it should be flagged for cleanup by a more active Wikipedian. Go make some noise on the abortion talk page or something. You don't have a leg to stand on here. And by the way, I really don't care that Wikipedia has global readership. Guess what? The globe is a collection of regions. If you're going to crow about the importance of South Africa, surely you must realize that. I'm going to go ahead and guess you didn't go hunting for plumbing trade publications. 70.95.252.87 (talk) 07:26, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marked for cleanup and as possible advertising

Couple of things: RIGID Tools is a rather large and important company (from what I've heard) to the plumbing industry. If that last one is true, and given the first, then the article needs some citations for key points and some better order to the sections.

Its obvious either a plumber or RIGID itself has edited the article too, because the advertising section seems a little... too enthusiastic to be true. But, I'm in no position to edit it as I haven't the slightest idea about RIGID's past advertising. Still, someone with knowledge and time should apply a little elbow grease to the section and make it a little less POV for Wikipedia quality standards.

Lastly, I was wondering (in general for all tools articles) if a section on where the tools are available in different countries wouldn't be a good idea, or if we should just leave it to a link to the companies website. My thinking is that people who come to Wikipedia and look up tools are probably researching the brands, so a section on where the tools are available might be nice (of course, every john and barry store couldn't be listed, but large national distributors might be a good idea). Its just a thought.

Scryer_360 (talk) 07:09, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

Just a note: You may have more success in locating references if you spell the name of the brand correctly. It is RIDGID, not RIGID, or RIGGID. I am well aware that it is not an actual word in the English language; however, it is only a brand.

In addition, I do agree that it is a large and relatively well known tool company (think Stanley Black & Decker for comparo) and that it's parent, Emerson, is a very well known company. Ever consider merging RIDGID into Emerson? Just a couple thoughts from a random guy. Happy editing. 76.111.34.152 (talk) 06:03, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tools

I moved this to talk as an excessively long list that is practically trivia. RJFJR (talk) 19:23, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Specialties

automatic-chuck pipe threading machines.
Ridgid SeeSnake video sewer and drain inspection systems.
Ridgid SeekTech utilities locators.

Hand tools

pipe wrenches, including premium lightweight aluminum models and Ridgid RapidGrip spring-loaded self-adjusting pipe wrenches.
manual pipe threaders.
manual tubing cutters.
manual drum augers ("hand spinners") from Ridgid/Kollman.
basin wrenches and other plumbing speciality tools.
broad range of hand tools (recent).

Power tools

pipe threaders.
drum augers and other powered drain snakes.
utility pumps.
wet/dry vacuum cleaners (recent).
common power tools (saws, drills, etc.) (recent).
air compressors and air tools (recent).

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RIDGID → Ridgid – To lose the branding capitalization, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks. typhoon (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support a rather straight forward request.--174.93.163.194 (talk) 01:01, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Agree and support. No reason to use capital letters. Mama meta modal (talk) 15:07, 23 February 2014 (UTC).[reply]
Support Red Slash 01:21, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Company name

To be clear, the name of the company is the Ridge Tool Company, not the Ridgid Tool Company. This page and this page on their web site refer to the company as such, for example. It also still appears on some of their tools, including the back side of all their pipe wrenches. It's named after its hometown of North Ridgeville, Ohio.

Ridgid is the brand name that the company uses. It's a play off the words "Ridge" and "rigid."

We must be careful not to mix the two up in this article.

—typhoon (talk) 05:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization

Wikipedia has a style manual, and in this manual, the regular rules of English are respected above marketing capitalization: [1]

So Ridgid, not RIDGID.

--typhoon (talk) 06:02, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]