Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cal Worthington

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Babajobu 21:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cal Worthington

Not notable car dealership owner. No claim to notability in article. Search gets about 2800 hitts. [1] Mikeblas 08:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as pop culture reference. Relatively obscure now but Cal & his tv commercials were familiar to millions of southern Californians in 1960s and 1970s. Comparable to Madman Muntz. I'd hate to see him go. --Lockley 08:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Also thee 1980s (shudder)

• Delete non-notable vanity piece. --Oscarthecat 08:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete vanity. --Terence Ong 11:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and merge with My Dog Spot. I don't know him myself, but this search and the fact that the two articles have been made apparently independently, makes me agree that Lockley is right. Andre Engels 12:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and merge with My Dog Spot -- or, really, merge My Dog Spot with it. Much as it pains me personally*, this has pop-culture resonance. And Google gives it 26,000 hits -- including, God help us all, a website archive of his commercials. --Calton | Talk 13:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

*Note my name. Imagine what happens when I meet someone from southern California. Imagine having to listen to that damned jingle one more time from the southern Californian. Cringe.

Note. I only get 889 hits at Google. [2]. -- Mikeblas 23:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

There's at least 2900 hits [3]. --Interiot 14:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Notable pop culture figure of the past, regularly joked about by California-based talk show hosts like Johnny Carson. Monicasdude 15:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep borders on the trivial, but is well known in California. Carlossuarez46 21:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, cultural icon in California, and was the subject of many Johnny Carson satires in the day. User:Zoe|^(talk) 23:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Johnny Carson reference, also national notability per articles in Washington Post Oct. 26, 2005; Sacramento Bee Dec. 21, 1998, USA Today Feb. 12, 1996.
• Keep per lengthy amount of information on amusing animals. --Interiot 14:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep — Unfortunately very slightly notable. — RJH 16:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.