Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chocolate fountain

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 18:55, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Chocolate fountain
Removed the link to Divalicious's Rental business...added link to Chocolate Fountain Legend and photos...

Note: Article has been rewritten to remove advertising. Mgm|(talk) 09:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

Advertising. RickK 06:01, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I can live with the changes that MacGyverMagic made. RickK 20:55, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

*Delete. Advertising. Mgm|(talk) 09:11, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ad. utcursch 06:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advert. jni 08:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) Change vote to keep. jni 13:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep now it's been rewritten. Mgm|(talk) 09:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten it to take out the advertising and possible copyvio. Keep or merge with Fondue. Kappa 09:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or possibly merge as Kappa suggests. Right now, the technique described is probably still patented by the company that makes these devices, so it's probably not a generic device right now. Ergo, in my opinion, this is still sort of advertising. However, I can see the argument to include in generic fondue article. HyperZonk 17:34, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I've been convinced by Andrew L. -- HyperZonk 18:08, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I see no way to un-ad this trivial mess. Someone else did, however. Keep as re-written... Wyss 21:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten by Kappa. I disagree that there are any subjects that cannot have unbiased articles.  If we can manage to have NPOV articles about the Iraq war, abortion, gay rights, gun control, and other genuinely controversial topics, surely we can manage to write about a fondue server without it turning out to be an ad!  Chocolate fountains are definitely made by more than one company, I'm 100% sure of that, so it's no more an ad than an article about cars, computers, phones, or any other product.  Besides, even if it was made by one company, big deal... there are lots of specific-product articles on WP, such as dozens of cel-phone models.  Furthermore, I disagree that these are particularly trivial: a search for "Chocolate fountain" OR "chocolate fountains" brings 134,000 Google matches Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  22:57, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable enough to have many sites selling or renting it, as a Google search shows. Even if it is made by a single company (I second Starblind's argument above). JoaoRicardo 03:10, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, although moving to chocolate fondue is a possible future direction. Mmmmm, chocolate. Gazpacho 09:32, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, ad. JamesBurns 08:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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