Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vast banket

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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 articles on company and its alleged founder, with no prejudice against creation of proper article about the company. DS (talk) 15:18, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vast banket

This is a very strange article. There is a company in the Netherlands called Vast Banket, but it's a small family company, barely notable. The only coverage they have had are press releases, such as this one. The "professor Banket" in the article appears to be a hoax. Banket is the Dutch word for banquet, it's not a surname. And the history of the company? Well, the claimed rivalry with Dr. Oetker, which allegedly dates back to the 19th century, is bogus: as evidenced by the press release linked above, the company was founded around 1950. It's a minor company, nowhere near the size of Dr. Oetker. This is either a hoax, unverifiable, not notable, advertising, or any combination of the above. AecisBrievenbus 18:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Speedy Delete. I smell WP:Hoax. Claims "Dr. Banket" discovered baking soda? -- Redfarmer (talk) 18:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Netherlands-related deletion discussions. AecisBrievenbus 20:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Lack of notability, as nominator states there is indeed a smallDutch company by that name making confectionary. Hence only part of the article is hoaxie (but tat can be remedied), and should not be ground for deletion. The remaining text however lack notability, which is a ground. Arnoutf (talk) 21:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Smother with a vast blanket as a hoax. (Baking soda is natural, baking powder is a 19th century invention.) --Dhartung | Talk 22:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, the claims above fail WP:V.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 01:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep but clean up Vast Banket certainly exists, and I have enjoyed eating their products, and is more notable than some firms that have WP articles about them. The article is unencyclopaedic however and much of the content is either spurious or unreferenced. Describing Oetker and Banket as 'battling behemoths' is a great turn of phrase, but is clearly an exaggeration of any real rivalry.Riversider2008 (talk) 12:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • While the company exists, the article does not deal with that company but with a fictititious prof Banket.
  • Keep but clean up references This article needs is references properly integrated.racingstu 16:57, 4 January 2008(UTC)
  • The current references do not support any of the text of the article (I checked them, Dutch is my native language). Arnoutf (talk) 23:28, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Lack of notability. See also recently added ‎Adelbert Banket. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boson (talk • contribs) 17:11, 4 January 2008 (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.