Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salvador's Ice Cream


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The result was delete. (ESkog)(Talk) 02:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Salvador's Ice Cream
Ten google hits on this. It is apparently an unusual looking ice cream stand. While I agree that it's a cool looking ice cream stand(see http://www.salvadorsicecream.com/ ), this doesn't make it notable by wikipedia standards Xyzzyplugh 13:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. AdamBiswanger1 13:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, perhaps there will be a day that every ice cream stand deserves its own wikipedia article, but not at the moment :) Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral. The stand is 70 years old, is an example of Mimetic architecture and Depression-era pop art (sort of), and may be a bit of a cultural touchstone in southeastern Massachusetts. That said, 10 Google hits is an awful low number of hits. But not everything notable is on the web. Probably it doesn't deserve to survive -- at the end of the day, it is just an ice cream stand -- but I'm not sure it's a slam-dunk either. (It does have a cow on top, and I'm not sure if Wikipedia has ever deleted an article involving a cow on top of a building, if that counts for anything.) Herostratus 13:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete I would say merge based on Herostratus' comments, but where to? Plus, without a picture it's going to need at least a thousand words. Yomangani 15:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, if there were an overall article which talked about a number of buildings which looked like shoes, ducks, snowmen, etc, then this could be merged into that one, but we don't have such an article. From doing a google search, it looks like this is indeed referred to as "mimetic architecture".  I've added mimetic architecture to Requested_articles, but unless anyone wants to write such an article in the next few days, I can't see how we can keep this.  --Xyzzyplugh 23:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've created a stubby article on mimetic architecture, but now I've done it, I'm not sure this is worth merging. There appear to be much better examples of the type out there, with their own articles and pictures. Yomangani 15:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * And no sooner did I type this than I realised that it was covered in Novelty architecture, so I've now merged my stub. Yomangani 15:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


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