User talk:71.164.135.161

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[edit] New Coke

Since all you did was change the page template without actually delisting the article, I have restored it to GA status. You would do well, especially given that you only have three edits in your history and two of them are to that talk page, to remember that anon editors like yourself are not permitted to promote articles to GA, and I don't think you should be allowed to delist them, either.

Your arguments may have raised some reasonable points, but they were stated in such an uncivil manner as to be perilously close, in my opinion, to vandalism. What you recall about that time period is of note, but the research I've done (which you seem to have ignored) backs up everything in that article (and there's more to come). I did taste New Coke, and rather liked it. I do wish they still sold it. Especially since Coke seems to have watered down the taste of Diet Coke since they introduced the Splenda variant.

History, I've found, has a funny way of being at odds with what you think it was when you really get down and research it(see The Miracle at the Meadowlands, where everything I looked at showed that there was a lot more to it than Giants' fans have long believed). I knew a lot of people back then (perhaps less than you) who also didn't find New Coke to be all that bad, but they didn't take passionate stands on it like the people who hated it did (Coke did underplay that result of their marketing research, to their peril. I wonder if a concerted pushback campaign might have worked better in the long run, but that excludes the bottlers' lawsuit and the impact it had on the reintroduction of old Coke (as if you can get true (i.e., sugar-sweetened) old Coke these days without going to a Mexican grocery, anyway. I really prefer Coke Zero to that HFCS crushed-cookie aftertaste). It is a large part of researching and writing an encyclopedia to write the truth and not what people commonly believe (as was the case when I first started editing this article over a year ago).

If you're really serious about your objections (and I would suggest that if you think I work for Coke (who now like to pretend New Coke never happened), consider that the article, again reflecting my research, doesn't make Coke's handling of the product rollout look like such a great marketing triumph), take it to good article review. There's more research I would like to do (I have a whole list of business-press articles from the time period to look up) and I'm always open to feedback. Daniel Case 05:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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