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The article Box office slump was nominated for deletion. The debate was closed on 01:22, 5 August 2008 with a consensus to merge the content into Box office. If the merger is not completed promptly, Box office slump might be re-nominated for deletion.

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[edit] Is this a dab?

This doens't look like dab to me, if there are no objections I'll remove the {{disamibg}} soon.--Commander Keane 15:47, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I totally agree. Tedernst | talk 16:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

The term "box office" originates from William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. In the olden days, entry into the lower parts of the playhouse cost a single coin, and this fee was collected in small, locked boxes with entry slots in the top. Upon the boxes being filled up, a runner would take the coin-filled box to a back room where it was counted and stored. Hence, the room associated with the financial aspects of the theatre became known as a box office.

I reworded this and removed the reference to the Globe Theate, which was unreferenced and seemed dubious to me. I doubt whether they had a completely unique system of collecting money giving rise to the term box-office.OneVeryBadMan 14:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm sceptical about this whole Etymology. It sounds like an internet myth. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a box(-)office is "the office at which seats may be booked for a theatrical performance or other entertainment (orig. for the hiring of a box)." So it's named after the fact that you could hire a box (ie, partitioned-off seats at the theatre) and nothing to do with coin-boxes. (MRJ) 82.211.88.22 16:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I'll perform the merge myself if an involved editor doesn't do it in the next few days. Okiefromokla ^questions? 01:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)