Talk:Mini survival kit

Proposed rewrite 2008

Proposed rewrite (already added it)

Content of proposed article moved to /Proposed rewrite 2008

Please note that I compared information of 2 leading survival books (SAS Surval Handbook and the Survival Handbook by P. Darman to write the text and no contents has simply been copied. Also, I kept the information from the original article (some things where deleted as [[black shoe polish, instructions to make knots, ... as this is generally not commonly used in regular mini survival kits (perhaps in the larger kits but not the mini-ones).

Finally I recommend changing the page to "Mini survival kit" rather than "Mini survival kits (with the -s) —Preceding unsigned comment added by KVDP (talk • contribs) 16:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Unsupported deletions

Unsupported deletions should also be subject to review. Pointing out the need for subject matter experts. --Sp00nf3d (talk) 20:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Move of the commercial items described to Wikipedia commons

Could someone make an article on "How to make a mini-survival kit" on wikipedia commons and use transfer the commercial item info aswell as alternative setups of casing, ... to it. A quick article may be created using info from WikiHow Thanks. 87.64.194.11 (talk) 09:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Move of article to "Mini survival kit"

Please move the article to "mini survival kit"

87.64.194.11 (talk) 09:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Agree. Carl.bunderson (talk) 05:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Agree. Wekn reven i susej eht ^{Talk• Follow} 21:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Wekn reven i susej eht: The rename discussion you are replying to happened in Jan 2008, almost four years ago. The page move has already happened. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 22:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Overdoing the Altoids

This seems to be a peculiarly American variation, since in the UK at least, tobacco tins (2 oz or 1 oz) have always been the most common suggested container. Nick Cooper (talk) 16:59, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Also the origin of these is from Lofty Wiseman, who used a tobacco tin. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

No, in the UK at least the survival kit concept easily pre-dates Wiseman's 1985 book. Blue Peter did a feature on survival kits in the late-1970s, using a Coleman's mustard tin, but books around the same time recommend tobacco tins as an option. Nick Cooper (talk) 11:38, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Wiseman's tin (and much of the book) is originally 1970s. But it wasn't published as a book until the '80s. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:21, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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