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This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. - Splash 22:21, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
I removed the link to the disambiguation page brownie, since nobody is likely to stumble across this page while intending another meaning. - Sopoforic 18:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
When I was in Brownies, we were told a story about little elf/sprite type creatures that did good deeds and that was where the name originated from. I'm not sure if it's an actual story, or one made up by Girl Scouts, but it's plausible. One can earn "points" by doing good deeds and imitating the "brownies". I'll try to dig up more info, but has anyone else ever heard this? Joliefille 11:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
The Brownie points#Conjectures for etymology section offers five separate possible etymologies, but the lead paragraph presents only one of them and describes it as "The origin of the term" even though its section Brownie points#George R. Brown calls it "Another proposed etymology". Is there any evidence that this is the preferred etymology, or should the lead paragraph be changed to indicate that several possible origins have been proposed? [Note that the lead paragraph contains information about its favored etymology that does not appear in that etymology's dedicated section. It should be rolled in if it is supported by the reference.] -- Kirk Hilliard ( talk) 03:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The LAT 1951 citation would appear to belie the OED's earliest usage date of 1963. The sentence seems in contradiction with itself. Orthotox ( talk) 09:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. - Splash 22:21, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
I removed the link to the disambiguation page brownie, since nobody is likely to stumble across this page while intending another meaning. - Sopoforic 18:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
When I was in Brownies, we were told a story about little elf/sprite type creatures that did good deeds and that was where the name originated from. I'm not sure if it's an actual story, or one made up by Girl Scouts, but it's plausible. One can earn "points" by doing good deeds and imitating the "brownies". I'll try to dig up more info, but has anyone else ever heard this? Joliefille 11:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
The Brownie points#Conjectures for etymology section offers five separate possible etymologies, but the lead paragraph presents only one of them and describes it as "The origin of the term" even though its section Brownie points#George R. Brown calls it "Another proposed etymology". Is there any evidence that this is the preferred etymology, or should the lead paragraph be changed to indicate that several possible origins have been proposed? [Note that the lead paragraph contains information about its favored etymology that does not appear in that etymology's dedicated section. It should be rolled in if it is supported by the reference.] -- Kirk Hilliard ( talk) 03:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The LAT 1951 citation would appear to belie the OED's earliest usage date of 1963. The sentence seems in contradiction with itself. Orthotox ( talk) 09:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC)