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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was delete. —Cleared as filed. 04:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pete Ellis Dodge[edit]

Automobile dealership in California; no claim to notability. Mikeblas 02:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. The claim of notability here is that dealer had an effective ad jingle which made them famous in California. Well, isn't that what a good jingle is supposed to do? PJM 05:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge relevant parts with jingle. The car dealership isnt notable for anything other than the song -- Astrokey44|talk 05:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, I remember the commercials, but this does not make the dealerships notable. Maybe we should delete Cal Worthington, as well. -- Kjkolb 07:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete nn per nom.Blnguyen 07:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete agree that a catchy jingle doesn't make a car dealership notable, and isn't even worth merging with jingle, especially since it was only known locally. —simpatico hi 10:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as non-notable. —This user has left wikipedia 16:42 2006-01-25
  • Delete I'd have said keep if there were any evidence that the jingle genuinely is still remembered, but 22 Google hits including WP does not suggest it really is. Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 17:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep. Pete Ellis Dodge, Long Beach Freeway, Firestone exit, Southgate. (Sometimes it was Bellflower.) No one who ever heard this jingle, over the at least 30 years it's been running, ever forgot it; I'm certain that you could find several million people in the greater Los Angeles basin who could sing it for you. I'm inclined to find that degree of fame to be noteworthy. -Ikkyu2 06:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Here in the Tennessee Valley, everyone, and I mean everyone, knows the Nice Cars spokesman, who has been the star of numerous and prolific off-beat commercials for the dealership. Every commercial ends with him getting a pie in the face and a one-liner. The ads have been running for years locally. Does he deserve a wikipage? Or are memes in California more notable than memes anywhere else (save New York, of course)? —simpatico hi 19:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Every local community knows some kind of jingle for a car dealership, because they play them to death on TV and Radio. If you walk around in Buffalo New York, and say "HUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGEEEEE" They'll know you're talking about Fucillo Chevrolet, but what makes that car dealship more notable to have it's own article? --lightdarkness 01:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, come on, twenty million southern Californians will go to their death beds with this song ringing in their ears. Surely that's worth a keep. Babajobu 18:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]


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