Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oakland toast


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Oakland toast

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Do I really need to explain why this unverified article, which borders on nonsense, needs to be deleted from Wikipedia? Click on the Google links to gauge the notability of this term. Drmies (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete with a strong sense of sentiment and nostalgia - Wikipedia is not for things made up while severely jet-lagged. (Oh, yeah: No sources provided or found.) - SummerPhD (talk) 14:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a canonical example of making things up one day. People decide to make up their own name for something that they happened to do one day, and then write a Wikipedia article falsely claimining to have invented it.  I've bad news for the false claimants.  Standing on chairs to make a toast is documented in sources as going back to at least the 18th century.  The U.S. Marines perform toasts at Mess Nights standing on chairs.  See ISBN 9781425984489 and ISBN 9780888790279 for more, including the Toast of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (one foot on chair, one on the table) and toasts to James II of England which also involved standing on chairs.  This article is just total rubbish from top to bottom. Uncle G (talk) 14:37, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I look forward to your DYK for Toasts performed standing on chairs. Drmies (talk) 17:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there an Americans with Disabilities Act compliant version? - SummerPhD (talk) 17:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've added some of the information to mess night. Uncle G (talk) 19:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, because it is complete nonesense. StudierMalMarburg (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, not an appropriate article subject. VQuakr (talk) 16:37, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Snow delete per my prod rationale. Erpert (let's talk about it) 17:26, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete It seems that "a group of friends" in California like to stand on their chairs while toasting. Fascinating story, thanks for sharing it with us, buh-bye. Mandsford 17:45, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone wants to preserve it as an example of what not to write, esp. for something made up one day, which its a pretty ideal example.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:34, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete I only see one on Google, but I do not see something not related to this article. JJ98 (talk) 10:19, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:V so it needs to go. However, plenty of trouts to go around for failure to assume good faith and for accusing the creator of creating a hoax. This actually might be a regional but undocumented term. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:32, 4 August 2010 (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.