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The result was delete. Sr 13 03:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Root beer in popular culture

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WP:NOT#IINFO. "In popular culture" articles are often indiscriminate information, but this is a particularly bad example. In a film once somebody asked for a root beer... Richie Cunningham ordered a root beer occasionally, etc. Masaruemoto 00:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete & merge into main root beer article under a section for references to popular culture. --_Hdt83 ^Chat 00:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge some, delete the rest. The more notable references like that Tappen video game can be poured into the main root beer article; the remainder is just suds. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 00:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, do not merge, no reliable sources, OR, violates WP:TRIVIA. Corvus cornix 01:12, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no merge - trivia, cruft, nonsense, whatever your favorite word to describe stuff that shouldn't be here. Indiscriminate list, grouping of otherwise unassociated topics on the basis of the inclusion of a soft drink. Otto4711 01:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no merge - Per Otto. Cool Blue^{talk to me} 01:50, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, don't merge - Violates WP:TRIVIA; reads as cruft; non-notable; pick your reason. --tennis man 01:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete Nothing with reliable sources. Please keep in mind that merging and deletion is not an option due to the GFDL. If content is merged this will need to become a redirect to wherever it is merged to. JoshuaZ 02:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I underlined this particular bit to draw attention to a very important fragment. Good job for reminding people Joshua. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:01, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pour it down the plughole Just asking because I don't know. Is root beer in America the same as 'ginger beer' in England? Nick mallory 03:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It's also known as Sarsaparilla Ohconfucius 06:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - the only decent material here could easily be merged back. --Haemo 06:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Root beer which allows for merging of the viable material without violating the GFDL and discourages recreation (at least one example is crucial to the plot of the episode discussed and thus more than a passing trivial mention). - Mgm|^(talk) 12:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as original research, unreferenced and trivia.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 14:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete because the article is trivia-based, listing unconnected appearances of a beverage with no cited real-world context. If root beer has had some kind of influence on society, then such impact should be written in prose and cited on the main article, root beer. This branch-off article, without any real-world context, serves as a vehicle for abuse. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:54, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 10:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. IP198 20:06, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#INFO, an article like this is potentially unmanageable and fails to assert the unique cultural significance of root beer as opposed to any other beverage. The only thing linking together these bits of trivia is that it happens to involve root beer. Any other drink could be substituted in its place. --Kyoko 22:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.