Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal tru orange


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The result was   keep. Gwen Gale (talk) 18:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Royal tru orange

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Non-notable product, merge to Fanta Madcoverboy (talk) 15:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - "top five carbonated soft drink brands in its market." -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 16:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to International availability of Fanta as it is just Fanta in the Philippines. Another article about the same drink also exists at Royal (drink) and might need to be bundled into this AfD.  D C E dwards 1966  16:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * As far as I can remember, here in the Philippines, Royal Tru Orange was already in the market way, way, way before CCBPI introduced Fantahere. In fact, I think Fanta is now infrequently sold in supermarkets here. Might be better to keep the article and have the mention in the Fanta article link to this one. --- Tito Pao (talk) 04:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. It's sorta like Mirinda. Plus a Philippine Basketball Association team was named after this drink so it's notable. -- Howard  the   Duck  08:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Rename to Royal Tru. Royal Tru Orange has been available in the Philippines since 1922, more than 20 years before Fanta even existed (source here).  The "Royal Tru" and "Royal Tru Light" brands are even listed in Coca-Cola's official website (source here).  It even had a successful campaign in the 1980s involving model, and now lifestyle writer, RJ Ledesma (source here, TV ad here).  Aside from orange, Royal Tru is available in dalandan (a type of Philippine citrus) and grape flavors.  And just like others said, it's different from Fanta, which only appeared in the early 1990s but quickly shelved because it was so popular it was eating the sales of Coke. Starczamora (talk) 11:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm digressing here, I know. I didn't know that Royal Tru was way, way older than Fanta. And, yes, I remember the RJ Ledesma commercials way back, me and my grade school classmates used to mimic that. Thanks for the heads up ;-) --- Tito Pao (talk) 14:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Starczamora: You can do the "rename" yourself by moving the page. I would do it, but since the context of the article would have to be reformatted to match the article's name, and I know very little about the subject, I am hesitant to do the move myself. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 00:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 23:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep as per everyone here. And Royal Tru is more popular here in the Philippines than Fanta (Fanta Orange was even sold here during its heyday). - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 17:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)


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