Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/House hippo

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 02:03, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] House hippo

Amusing enough. Vanity. Trolling for website hits. Delete. BJAODN? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:24, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No, the House Hippo is a real Commercial produced by the Concerned Children's Advertisers of Canada. Get your facts straight. snafuu|Talk 06:31 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well there you are then. Just goes to show I can't sit on my bum here in London and know everything. :) --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:38, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

May I Take out the VFD and F&F now? snafuu

allow other users to post their thoughts on this one... whether or not it meets wikipedia inclusion standards is open to discussion

• Delete. Fictional characters from advertising campaigns are questionable... I don't know if this one has entered pop-culture enough to be worth including. If kept, the article needs a major re-write to make it clear that this was an advertising tool. Wikipedia articles aren't meant to confuse.Feco 07:14, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but keep it on VfD for the appropriate length of time. The article should also be rewritten to make it clear in the first sentence that this is an advertising campaign. RickK 07:31, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep if the wording can be fixed so that the article isn't practically a verbatim transcript of the public service anonuncement. --iMb~Meow 08:01, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• I find this somewhat doubtful... is this a valid meme or merely a character from an ad? Because I could think of at least a dozen of the latter, and unless on par with the Duracell bunny there's really nothing special about them. Abstain for now. Radiant_* 15:20, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but improve. Who knows whether five years from now this might explode into a retro-meme? - DavidWBrooks 15:48, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. "House hippo" + CCA gets 58 hits [1]. Doesn't seem like a notable enough advertising character for inclusion in wikipedia. DaveTheRed 18:48, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I boobed when I nominated htis. This article is now a well written description of an anti-advertising campaign. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:25, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but rewrite to provide immediate context and remove - or substantially reword - the opening paragraph as I believe it is a verbatim copyvio of the commercial's script. 23skidoo 22:54, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• If it can be reworded, keep. Otherwise delete.DS 23:14, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:10, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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