Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reach for the Sun Bottle Hunt

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The result was Delete. Tim Vickers (talk) 23:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reach for the Sun Bottle Hunt

A one-shot marketing promotion, with no evidence of lasting notability Ecoleetage (talk) 12:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete ATTENTION all marketing majors, ad-men, public relations firms, et al. For the love of Pete please stop putting your work product into the encyclopedia. You lot will be first against the wall when the revolution comes anyway (just ask the Golgafrincham Ark B passengers and crew.) Cheers. L0b0t (talk) 12:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:N. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 13:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~Week Delete - It just doesn't seem to be WP:NOTABLE. I couldn't find anything besides the manufacturers website which refers to the bottle hunt. Nk.sheridan Talk 13:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment- Could possibly have some source for WP:V per Jkatzen's comments. Nk.sheridan Talk 20:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I'm not surprised people may not find it not notable, but the reason I added it here, is that it was an early-Internet-days meme, and there is sorely little available talking about some of the activities of the period. The year-long promotion was very well known among the few web-savvy individuals back in 1996-1997, but because it (admittedly) was only a marketing promotion, little remains of it. The promotion, though, introduced thousands of people to internet search engines when they were still a novelty. According to a book by author Daniel S. Janal (from Google Book Search), "Sunny Delight offered college-bound students an Internet scavenger hunt and a chance to win a $10000 scholarship. This ploy received nationwide attention . . . ." Also see an excerpt from another book discussing it. Alas, I'll probably be outvoted by people trying to trim down Wikipedia's listings, but I'd like to see the article stay. As a side note, if you search Google for sunny d "bottle hunt", there are some passing references to it on a number of sites. Jkatzen (talk) 14:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment -- re: the RFD, this wasn't a one-shot contest. It was repeated three times over an extended period. Jkatzen (talk) 06:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Provisional Neutral; if Jkatzen can add some references to document the event and its historical notability, then I have no problem with Keeping. The first, or an early, promotion of this kind is certainly a good claim to notability, and coverage of the event would cement that, I think. UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 14:40, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete It may get a passing mention now and again but the criteria for notability is that multiple sources should address the subject in detail. --neon white talk 01:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep if it can be better sourced Broonsparrow (talk) 22:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no substantial coverage; just another promotion. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:43, 17 June 2008 (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.