Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WcDonald's

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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 was Snowball delete --JForget 00:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WcDonald's

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There is only one source, which is of a screencap of one anime. Do all the others use WcDonalds? Besides, are they truly related? Even if they were, I think it wouldn't be notable enough for its own article. --Jedravent (talk) 21:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete Somehow this ended up becoming a messy coatrack (not in the very sense of the policy, just in the general word) for every McDonald's parody ever in television and movies. One-off appearances in anime certainly don't establish the notability. Nate • (chatter) 22:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - Good article, but doesn't seem notable enough. Dwilso 22:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, unsourced fancruft, fails WP:FICT. McDonald's is one of the world's top three brands, and we could have thousands of articles for every time it gets played up in popular culture. We mostly don't need to do that at all and should only permit the ones with exemplary sourcing. --Dhartung | Talk 22:08, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Fancruft; there're many, many parodies of McDonald's and this one is not any more notable than the others. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 22:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Per above. Wikipedia is not place for original research. Zero Kitsune (talk) 22:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, completely unnotable instance of a common way to parody/avoidance of licensing fees. Fails WP:FICT. Collectonian (talk) 22:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak delete. While it's mostly true, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of reliable sources covering the subject. Celarnor Talk to me 01:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete coatrackish, as a good chunk of the article isn't about WcDonald's at all. What's there is OR. JuJube (talk) 02:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Per above Jasynnash2 (talk) 08:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 16:56, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: An article on the use of parody versions of trademarks in anime (and in general) could be written, with this as an example, using reliable sources -- the phenomenon has been commented on. But this isn't that article. —Quasirandom (talk) 16:58, 1 May 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.