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We use the sub/supersolution method to analyze a semipositone Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplacian. To find a positive solution, we therefore focus on a related problem that produces positive subsolutions. We establish a new nonexistence result for this subsolution problem on general domains, discuss the existence of positive radial subsolutions on balls, and then apply our results to problems involving particular semipositone nonlinearities.