The problem isn't that the list is incomplete. It's that the endeavor is poorly conceived. You can names tapes by their intended use, or by their adhesive prop

The problem isn't that the list is incomplete. It's that the endeavor is poorly conceived. You can names tapes by their intended use, or by their adhesive properties, or by the material of the substrate, etc. Depending on what naming scheme you use, you get different lists. Look at 3M's list of tapes [0], for example. Their tape names don't match those on the wikipedia page, because they're named after intended use. The wiki page uses all strategies simultaneously. For example, they have a category called "foil tapes", which includes the wiki page's "aluminum tape" as a subcategory. The wiki page has "scotch tape", ironically a brand owned by 3M, which doesn't even appear on the 3M page (presumably they fall under that page's "office tapes" category). I'm not just nit-picking about naming. I'm saying the list is arbitrary because it resolve hash collisions arbitrarily. [0] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/tapes/ https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/tapes/