Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One-Balled Dictator

 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 22:23, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

One-Balled Dictator
Poor factual accuracy and glib, biased writing. Two links, from a List of cocktails and Hitler Has Only Got One Ball. 119 20:51, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: those aren't reasons for deletion of this topic. Kappa 21:26, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nothing seriously wrong with this article that I can see.  Any alleged "factual errors" should be resolved by editing, not by deletion.  &mdash;Kelly Martin 01:30, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - as the article says "little known", un-encyclopaedic - there have been much more notable cocktail recipes that didnt make the grade on Wikipedia. Megan1967 01:53, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as the sort of cultural history WP can afford to carry, not being paper and all. Maybe the article could do a better job of describing the cocktail as a carrier of inaccurate myths, though. Wyss 07:48, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki - cocktail and other recipes belong to Wikibooks - Skysmith 11:05, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: While I agree that most recipes belong to Wikibooks, this is more than a recipe; it's cultural folklore, and that makes it suitable for the encyclopedia. &mdash;Kelly Martin 20:48, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 20:03, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article contains more information than merely a recipe. I think it deserves a chance. --Deathphoenix 03:35, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme keep, if you've got the balls. &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 19:16, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. This article has folkloric value, and a reasonable breakdown of symbolic origins of the drink --Corq 18:06, 26 January 2005
 * Keep. The drink does exist, and the reference to Hitler is real, too.  Edeans 05:52, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This enrty is facinating - well written and a bit of history that doesen't exist in other sources. As wikipedia grows - not all of the articles will be of the Britanica veriety.

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