Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haribo Smurfs

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 was Merged and Redirected to Gummi bear#variations. Black Kite 00:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Haribo Smurfs

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Not notable. Obscurity does not seem to warrant merging into Gummi bear#Variations. Lea (talk) 12:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Also, is anyone else a little scared by the fact that the article claims that these candies are "not FDA approved"? What are they feeding those kids in Benelux? Creeepy. Gladys J Cortez 20:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  • FDA is US-American, so it's only sold in Europe — that's all, I guess. -- Lea (talk) 20:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
• merge to Gummi bear#Variations; "obscurity" purely an instance of systemic bias (these are a readily available standard variety of sweet in at least four countries). --Paularblaster (talk) 23:08, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
  • With "obscurity", I meant lack of coverage in independent sources. So I don't think they are worth mentioning in the gummi bear article. (See below.) -- Lea (talk) 03:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Undecided. I'm a Smurfs fan, but these are only a kind of candy... However, as has recently been mentioned in Time magazine (!), over the last twenty years no less than 6.5 billion of these candies have been sold (yep, that's one for every human now alive!).[1]. I don't think that this can be called "obscure", only obscure in the USA, but that is irrelevant. The same fact is mentioned in the Swiss newspaper "Le matin"[2]. They are also mentioned briefly in the Boise Weekly[3]? The CEO of Haribo discusses them briefly in German newspaperDer Tagesspiegel[4]. Similar short mentions can be found in more newspapers throughout Europe. So they are known in many countries, popular, long lasting, and so on, but there are no in depth sources about them (well, what can you tell about a candy, in the end?). So I can understand the deletion of this article (and it certainly needs work if kept), but it pains me to see the subject described as "obscure", when it is actually very well known in Western Europe. Fram (talk) 14:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • My "obscurity"-claim wasn't meant to be US-centric. :-) The best source (that says anything substantial) of the four sources you listed is, IMO, the article in the Tagesspiegel[5]. I added a (cited) note of the Haribo smurfs to the Gummi bear article. Not much apart from that is merge-worthy, since the Haribo Smurfs article is not properly sourced and the subject is too obscure (as in no significant coverage in independent sources) to warrant longer elaboration in the Gummi bear article. Redirect to Gummi bear#Variations. -- Lea (talk) 23:03, 11 February 2008 (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.