Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Agua loca

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 was merged. W.marsh 17:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Agua loca

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Notability and verifiability both lacking. A speedy tag was removed [1] YechielMan 20:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mixed Drinks-related deletions.
• I am not surprised that the speedy delete was removed. The preferred way to request removal of mixed drink-related articles (even really bad ones like this particular one) is to place {{WPMIXMergeDelete}} on the talk page and then add a note explaining the request. The reason we request this (and it is a request, not an official policy), is because the Mixed Drinks WikiProject tends to cut and paste little snippets of otherwise substandard articles, and merge the good parts into other articles. For GFDL license requirements, we must keep the original edit history intact, and turn the old page into a redirect pointing to where the information has been moved.
• The question to be determined in this case is: is there anything worth salvaging from this article? I do not know anything about the topic of this article, but the discussion on the talk page indicates that the term, at least, might be notable enough to be described somewhere (possibly in the Spanish Wiktionary with an interwiki soft redirect?). Here is what one user wrote: "Maybe the article should be changed to define it as a joke/slang term and it ways it can be used."
• I have no opinion on the value of the article itself (I don't know enough to make any judgment), but if any part of the article is kept (even in the Spanish Wiktionary or a different article here), then my vote is to convert the article into some type of REDIRECT to the new location to preserve the edit history. Thanks. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 20:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• The article hasn't changed substantially since I translated it from Spanish. The article has a couple of curious points, like the insistence on using tapwater rather than distilled water. Also the phrase "una bebida alcoholica preparada antiquisima" in the original kind of gave me translation problems. I translated this as "an alcoholic beverage prepared since ancient times" although it literally means "an alcoholic beverage prepared very antiquely" or somesuch. I vote merge and redirect with Punch (drink) Nardman1 20:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Give me a few days and I'll do the necessary merging and redirect if there are no objections. Nardman1 21:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy close as merge in progress. Nardman1, just remember that not everyone will be aware of your project procedures and in any case a Wikipedia procedure will almost always take precedence. --Dhartung | Talk 23:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment -- I am aware that policy always trumps WikiProject, and that's why I mentioned it here in the beginning. Thanks Nardman for a clean and simple resolution. I just hope that it doesn't overwhelm punch with an apparently non-notable drink. :-) --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 11:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Ha ha. As you know That page is huge already, but punch (drink) isn't. Anyway the merge is complete, all that remains is to close the afd and mark the talk page of agua loca. Nardman1 17:45, 31 January 2007 (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.