Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gold Tea

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The result was delete. Tone 15:18, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Gold Tea

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Unsourced for five years. I couldn't find anything to confirm that this was a real historical product. Possibly a hoax? Daniel 01:26, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

• Speedy delete as a silly hoax. Who smuggles gold in actual cups of tea? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:59, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax. Google search shows that only Wikipedia mirrors repeat this story. Anyway, how could iced tea have been traded (and smuggled) before the days of mechanical refrigeration? And where did the Confederates get tea? And why would they smuggle gold to the North instead of Europe? The whole thing is absurd and it's amazing it survived for five years. Cullen328 (talk) 05:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Delete as a hoax. The part about the gold smuggling was only added later, but even before that, the article had no sources or claims to notability. JIP | Talk 06:58, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Comment Neither "Colonel Ryan Mooney" nor "Colonel Ryan Mooney trial" search terms yield any results on Google Books. There is no substantiation for the claim for an influence on Goldschlager. Cullen, you won't have to grind through mirror site entries if you use the -Wikipedia -wiki ("everything other than") search terms when searching Google (see the links above to Books and News etc for examples of use). Anarchangel (talk) 21:41, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

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.