Talk:Coca-Cola Classic

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Please do not revert re-direct. The term "Coca-Cola Classic" does indeed refer to the soft drink of the same name, but it also references the Coca-Cola Classic (college football) game played in Japan from 1986 to 1993. From 1977 to 1985 it was known as the Mirage Bowl.

I hate to do this, but the WikiProject College Footbal will support this--there is a real need for the disambiguation page.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:D for why this page redirects to Coca-Cola instead of the dab. Readers looking for the football game will find it linked from the disambiguating redirect hatnote there. -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Coca-Cola Classic was only a common name for Coca-Cola for a relatively short time. Since the 2002 discontinuation of New Coke, the name has really fallen into disuse. Currently there are just 13 article links to this and the edit history of this page shows that while some think this should redirect to "the actual product" (Coca-Cola) others may feel it better to redirect to New Coke, which perhaps better explains the context for the name. Making this a disambiguation would allow for the removal of that eysore of a hatnote
 * "Coca-Cola Classic" redirects here. For the college football game, see Coca-Cola Classic (college football). For the golf tournament, see Coca-Cola Classic (golf).
 * — wbm1058 (talk) 14:48, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thing is, "Coca-Cola Classic" wasn't actually dropped until 2009 see here. That's nearly a quarter of a century, not just "some time" as the new addition to the Coca-Cola article claims. And it's still what it rings up as per its UPC code, by the way (the old UPC code for it was taken over by New Coke). Remember, despite the way they frame it now, The Coca-Cola Company did not discontinue New Coke but actually sold it alongside Coca-Cola Classic for years, and the latter name persisted as an artifact title for some years after Coke II was discontinued. The term is, first and foremost, an alternate name for the original Coca-Cola and should point to that product. oknazevad (talk) 16:40, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Good point; I was intentionally vague because I didn't recall exactly how long that lasted. 24 years! LOL. wbm1058 (talk) 18:41, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Technically (it were going to be specific), Coca-Cola Classic wasn't a return of to using the original formula in the flagship product, but a brand extension alongside the flagship product which retained the new formula (and the actual name). The company was actually somewhat surprised that it completely overtook the flagship and soon enough became the flagship by default, though the latter wasn't actually renamed Coke II until 1992, seven years later. Which, by extension, means that in the US market, there was actually no product officially called just "Coca-Cola" from 1992 until 2009. Weird, but true. oknazevad (talk) 19:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)