Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hamdingers

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 delete. --Coredesat 20:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hamdingers

Hamdingers (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Appears to be an unverifiable locally-produced food product. Google search reveals lots of wikipedia mirrors and trivial web forums that are unrelated to the product itself (mostly related to a couple of references on Mystery Science Theater 3000); article itself mentions that the product's existence is disputed. I suspect at least one person from Wisconsin or Minnesota might see this AfD and insist s/he has seen or eaten one of these things, but it can't really stay on wikipedia without some kind of proof of existence or definitive evidence that it's not just a local variant name for spam, or one town's nickname for a ham sandwich. Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 19:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per above. No evidence of notability. Kafziel ^Talk 20:08, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, this spam (while not spam) isn't notable. Budgiekiller 20:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete -- no reliable sources. I'm from Minnesota, but I've never seen these for sale at Cub Foods or Rainbow Foods, and I doubt Lunds or Byerly's sell them either. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 21:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Wisconsinite here for the last 14 years and never seen nor heard of them outside of MST3K. But I am a vegetarian... Otto4711 05:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - You can find references that are not MST3K related. Advertisement reference. Obscure? Yes. I'm not even sure it qualifies as notable. But it did exist. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mr. Vernon (talk • contribs) 05:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

• We need evidence that Hamdingers are notable, not just evidence that they exist. I exist, but I don't get to have an article because I'm not notable. If we delete articles about elementary schools and politicians, we can certainly delete an article about a spam sandwich. :) Kafziel ^Talk 12:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I would further suggest that someone's reminiscence, several times removed, posted on a webforum is not really "evidence" per se. It still doesn't establish what a hamdinger is, where they come from, etc etc, and is not firm proof that they even exist.--Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 05:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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