Fun talk:Stop Drinking Soda

Any thoughts on this? 11:29, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Off mission? Perhaps Goonie could benefit from this article though... 11:32, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I find it to US-centric, we don't have "soda" where I live. 11:35, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * We're all posh twits over here, so we call them "fizzy drinks." 11:40, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * While I'm sure there's a lot of food woo around fizzy drinks - carbonated water used to be touted as a cure for everything - the article's title on that shouldn't be "Stop Drinking Soda". With respect for obesity, when you watch those freak-show like programmes on TV where they show you the real morbidly obese (usually Americans) and they're drinking litres of coca cola each day, then you know there must be something in it. 11:43, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The classic one is they have carcinogenic chemicals in them. 11:48, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I feel this article would benefit from being sent to "fun". As it is it does nothing for us.--BobNot Jim 12:04, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * We can move, rewrite and just pretend it never existed. How about Carbonated beverages woo or Carbonated beverages myths? Such as the coke one debunked on Mythbusters. Do we have an article on this already or is that Snopes? 12:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

This is an old Wikipedia vandalism meme from circa 2005. Some user was on a mission to get people to Stop Drinking Soda! using WP as his soapbox, and also to warn about battery acid spray if you try to recharge batteries, banana and fructose addiction, stuff like that. His articles were all AFD but the Stop Drinking Soda article was reposted many times since for the lulz, probably by copycat vandals. It was a running joke for a while in AFD. "This isn't the stop drinking soda guy again, is it?"&mdash; Unsigned, by: 81.169.155.246 / talk / contribs
 * In which case we should just move it to FUN, we're not a repository of failed WP pages. Although discussion on the food woo side should continue. 12:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * (EC3x)Well you can mention that at the end of our soft drinks myths or what ever article. Any ideas for a name? 12:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Damn, Snopes has pwned us again. 12:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * And if it is identified as a pointless cruft meme, how come none of you geniuses suggested "deletion"? Which I now suggest, and will probably act unilaterally on in 5-4-3.... This is just crap. It's not "fun".  06:08, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

"talk pages for deleted crap" - what's the cat again? 06:09, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it is article instead of crap, I can't remember of hand. Actually Nx could write us a parser hook that could add that on deletion. 06:11, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, made wrong word. Automagic would be nice....  06:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)