Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taco Liberty Bell

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 speedy close since no-one, not even the nominator, wants the article deleted.

As a general point: Please note that the idea of our Wikipedia:Deletion policy is for editors to look for sources, using which stub articles can be expanded, themselves, without bringing the article to AFD. Please follow the procedure outlined in User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage (which echoes the procedure that used to be explicitly given in our deletion policy) and only come to AFD after you have looked for sources yourself from which a stub can be expanded and found nothing. We only delete stubs when Wikipedia:Article development is impossible (and it is impossible to rename, refactor, or merge the article into a broader topic) because no suitable sources exist.

As another general point: Don't nominate articles for deletion when what you want is a merger. Article merger does not involve AFD, or an administrator hitting a delete button, at any stage of the process, irrespective of how large step #2 of the merger process happens to be.

Uncle G (talk) 18:41, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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I would suggest a merge into Taco Bell but most of the info has already been merged. Other than that, the page has one source, really does not qualify as notable (it's an April Fool's prank), and since most info is on another page, I really don't see why this article should exist. James Luftan ^contribs 00:43, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep A Google News search shows that this got national press coverage when it happened, and is still referenced when the media feels like summing up history's greatest pranks. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, notable and memorable media prank often listed among the top 10 or greatest. Received international coverage and continues to be listed as recently as April Fool's coverage in 2007. --Dhartung | Talk 07:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Definitely a notable, perhaps even historic prank. Ayengar (talk) 11:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
• Remove Nomination, Close debate ASAP Wow guys! This article has been icreased enormously. More info, refs, etc. I only nominated it in the first place because it was almost word-for-word in the Taco Bell article. Now it gives plenty of reason to believe it was noteworthy and is no longer a copied paragraph from another page. Thanks. James Luftan ^contribs 00:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 15:06, 24 January 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.