Talk:Shamrock Shake

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This article has been deleted and the contents merged into the McDonald's products article as per the discussion at Talk:McDonald's products.

The proposal was posted on October 18, 2007, and the merge occurred after a five day commentary period in which no one opposed the merger.

- Jeremy (Jerem43 05:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Literary reference

I'm pretty sure that in Stephen King's story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" (which the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" was based on) the main character every year managed to procure a Shamrock Shake for one of the prisoners. Can someone confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.214.47.90 (talk) 23:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Shamrock shake

It does not meet the four requirements of notability:

  1. There is significant coverage of the subject in the independent press;
    There are no provided citations that meet this requirement, there is not even a single reliable link in the first ten pages of a Google search on the subject.
  2. The sources are reliable
    The sources are petitions, blogs and YouTube - none of which meet the standards of reliability.
  3. The sources are secondary, or when primary they follow the WP:PSTS guides for primary sources;
  4. You generated none of the information, you are not promoting the products, it is not structured as an ad (no peacock statements) and it is not a press release. This is the only acceptable reason, unfortunately 25% does not count.

You feel that it deserves an article yet the standards of Wikipedia says it doesn't. Also no one felt it even warranted an opinion at the time of the RFC. If you want to recreate it, you had better give it a better reason other than "I like it".

- Jeremy (Jerem43 (talk) 05:56, 16 December 2007 (UTC))

How about this? Also, that nobody responded still does not make you right. -Amarkov moo! 06:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
It's a PR release. It's about as independent as Ireland is to the United Kingodom. Ok, never mind, I fail at jokes, but a PR release is as good as linking to the home website – it exists, sure, but is not notable. hbdragon88 (talk) 06:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Eww, it is a PR release. Sorry about that. I can't find any good sources that are really about this shake, so I guess I'm wrong. It would've been nice if the initial reason weren't "nobody responded a month and a half ago!", though. -Amarkov moo! 06:39, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
  • interesting discussion. I suggest starting here and here for more info on how to expand this article. Of course no one noticed the redirect in october - shake time is march! Ed Wood's Wig (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I could have swore that back in the late 70/early 80s these shakes were pistachio flavor (like the pudding) and not mint. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.47.15.38 (talk) 19:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)