Do we have any sort of general strategy about brand names for general things? I forget what it was in offhand, but there was a discussion not that long ago about Band Aids. But other things like Kleenex, and whatever, Aspirin, Drywall, Jello, Frisbee, Kitty Litter, etc... I paused for a moment on post #801073 to look up whether we had Feeldoe as a tag, or one of the more general terms for it like strap-in dildo or strapless dildo or something. Some kind of bar to set, maybe, for how popular a single brand is before it's the target of aliases rather than the general term... Thoughts?

You mean forum #219348?

If a company only makes one thing then maybe (and that's a weak maybe) but a lot of these companies make other things. If possible, a more official term should be used but in some cases, it's just easier to use the generic trademark.

Wikipedia - List of generic and genericized trademarks

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. Band-Aid's made by Johnson&Johnson, incidentally. Most of these things are brand names, not company names. Feeldoe's made by Tantus. Among those other examples, Wham-o, Bayer, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, USG, Edward Lowe Industries... Usually with these, you don't end up ever hearing the actual company name and they make tons of other stuff, so the word always means the one thing it gets used for. So like, say in the example of Kleenex, that's common and competed enough that tissue or facial_tissue would probably be more understood. But Feeldoe - maybe on the cusp. I'm sure most people who know of them at all know that brand, but do they know it so predominantly that a descriptor would be confusing? Or would that be popular enough now that that particular product isn't what people think of first? Thinking it'd be worth mulling over some guidelines or something.

True, I should have said brand, not company. Do you think a feeldoe is unique enough to use as a generic trademark?

That's what I'm wondering too. Other companies have started making the same things since, but as far as I know, most people usually just call all of them that anyway. Kind of just curious to think of if there's any even sort of reliable way to figure out what qualifies.