User talk:Jamie C/Coke not Pepsi

This template was nominated for deletion, and the result of the debate was no consensus. See Templates for deletion/Log/2006 February 16 for details.

Defense presented due to nomination for AfD

Coke vs. Pepsi, sometimes known in Pepsi's advertising partially by the name Pepsi Challenge and by many people by various other names, including the Cola Wars, Coke vs. Pepsi, ..., is a personal preference that does not attack anyone. Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi routtinely ask this quesiton of their consumers because they want their product to be the one Americans--or the population of the world in general--to like more. Furthermore, this topic comes up many times in various contexts in which a Pepsi-drinker must drink Coke (or vice-versa) or when people are discussing the soda they prefer. Not suprisingly, many people have at least a minor preference, if not a strong one, for one over the other, and some people even prefer third party Coke/Pepsi equivalents. Many of these people take pride in the soda they prefer, and some will only drink that soda (and will not drink the competing brands).

An Attack Page is defined to be a "Wikipedia article written for the sole purpose of disparaging its subject." This, on the other hand, does not do that. It simply provides a way for someone to show his or her Coke (or, since it could easily be made into a Pepsi is better than Coke template, his or her Pepsi) preference on his or her user page, which is not subject to neutral point of view as are encyclopedia articles.

There is no blatant attack on anyone. It is a related to a commonly discussed and jokingly fought-over preference that many people have (regardless of if it's for Coke or Pepsi. Google yields 1,130,000 hits for "coke vs. pepsi," and most of them are friendly even if they are opinionated; this is not an attack, especially not a serious one, at all. It simply shows pride in which soda someone prefers, much like the Template:User browser:Firefox  or Template:User browser:Other --Many people have specific browsers they prefer over IE because of IE's widespread security issues, and they are proud to use something else. I am proud to be a Coke drinker who refuses to drink Pepsi, just as many refuse to use IE.

And if it's the "Not even close." that's the problem, the removal or rephrasing of that phrase does not merit the deletion of the template as a whole.

shouldn't it be the other way around?
shouldn't it be pepsi is no match for coke? if you're trying to imply that coke is better by leaps and bounds.


 * oops. thanks. i guess i was paying too much attention to getting the code and colors to work (30-60 mins with "show preview" that i was a bit hasty on the text... thanks again. //MrD9 04:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)