Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Gatorade flavors

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The result was delete. Wizardman 02:04, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Gatorade flavors[edit]

This seems to be trivial information on an non-notable subject Marlith ^T/C 20:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

delete per nom --Rtphokie (talk) 20:46, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Gatorade is definitely notable, but that does not mean a list of all flavours its marketing team ever came up with is necessary or desirable. Wikipedia is not a directory. --Blanchardb-^{MeMyEarsMyMouth}-timed 20:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Gatorade is notable, a list of flavors isn't. Pharmboy (talk) 20:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Frag it's also got serious original research issues. But man, Midnight Thunder was the best flavor... David Fuchs^(talk) 21:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as listcruft Doc Strange (talk) 21:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete.Listing flavors is totally pointless, in my opinion.Master Bigode (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge partly to Gatorade article. A brief mention of the current flavors should be enough on the Gatorade article, having a list of every flavor that ever existed is ridiculous. 11kowrom 23:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

*SNOW Perhaps?Marlith ^T/C 23:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge, per llkowrom, in part to Gatorade. Even with Jones Soda, not every flavor is notable. . Changing my "vote" per comments below by jarbarf and Roi. It is significant that there was only one flavor for the first four years, then two for the decade after that. After 28 years, Gatorade had five flavors, and then branched out in 1997. Some of the flavors, like the black "Midnight Thunder" would be considered unusual. On the other hand, an orange/strawberry/caffeine Gatorade might not be. Mandsford (talk) 00:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Please for the love of god do not merge, the Gatorade article is suffering as it is. (jarbarf) (talk) 05:24, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Definition of a true fan-- the capital "G" is reserved for Gatorade instead of God. Mandsford (talk) 12:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete User:Blanchardb is right. 99.230.152.143 (talk) 16:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge per Wikipedia:Lists. Gatorade is probably the most notable sports drinks and its various flavors is appropriate for individuals doing marketing research. Sincerley, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 23:02, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 05:29, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think the "Please for the love of God do not merge" comment made me reconsider. I don't want to be misunderstood. I said "partial merge". I note that jarbarf has done some cleanup, taking out some frivolous pop culture references, which is good. On the other hand, information about when the company decided to introduce other varieties of the product is not at all frivolous. Indeed, it reflects significant changes in marketing made after the involvement of Quaker Oats and PepsiCo. One could sum up, in a sentence, that there were lines marketed as "Frost", "Fierce", "Extremo", "A.M.", etc. On the other hand, I detect a sentiment that information about marketing decisions might be excised from the article as mess or clutter. I think that the article about the branching off of the product is in need of a fix, trying to impart the information in too many ways, but if there's not going to be anything about it in the parent article, erasing all that data is a little bit too "extremo" for my tastes. Mandsford (talk) 16:24, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete' or merge. How is this encyclopedic? Vegaswikian (talk) 03:02, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'm not dead-set against merging, but it would be awkward. Gatorade is notable, and the history of variations in the project is therefore also notable. 65.190.89.154 (talk) 05:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Put this in a press and squeeze it down to verifiable content then merge that into Gatorade: This is a lot of good original research ... I sat down and started to plot a flavor introduction curve to see what it looked like, but enough about what I do in my spare time. However, original research does not belong here - sorry. I am sure there are articles in business journals about how corporate changes have led to changes in flavor selection methods and how this has impacted the bottom line or either followed or influenced consumer flavor expectations (there might even be a Harvard Business School case study out there) ... but there is not a bit of good business-related referencing going on here. The verifiable content is that found on the site that is linked at the bottom of the article, which lists the current flavor families and their members, as well as an FAQ mention of some flavors that have been dropped (these should be cited separately, in my opinion). To quote a competitor ... "Get to IT!" --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:55, 28 December 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.