Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turn on (second nomination)
Let's look again at those six news reports. That in the ''Boston Herald'' has a certain small amount of content; within it: "The beverage, which contains vitamins B-12 and B-6, has been banned in France and Denmark because 'all soft drinks containing vitamins are forbidden,' said the company president." The mathaba.net story is pretty vacuous and anyway comes from local6.com, so we're really down to ''five'' "news reports" -- though "report" is a stretch for any of them aside from that in the ''Herald''. The ''Herald'' does tell us that the "key ingredient" is the alarmingly named "schizandra". Within WP, schizandra redirects to schisandra, which tells us that in traditional Chinese medicine it's used for various purposes -- none of them aphrodisiac. The rewritten article on Turn on is much less obviously awful than the one on which I slapped an AfD template, but it still tells us that ''Turn on is a cherry flavored soda that acts as an aphrodisiac when consumed.'' NB "acts as", not, say, "is claimed by those marketing it, if by nobody else, to act as". And so on and so on, and then: ''It is currently only sold via Turn On Beverages, Inc's website, but it will soon be available in stores nationwide.'' The former half looks a bit like a commercial come-on, the latter raises the question of which nation is discussed, and it seems to me to violate #Wikipedia_is_not_a_crystal_ball|'s rule that "Individual scheduled or expected future events should only be included if the event is notable and almost certain to take place." Is the start of conventional retailing in any nation of soda pop that's claimed by its purveyor to be aphrodisiac a ''notable'' event? I say no it isn't. Meanwhile, WP seems to be notably and alarmingly willing to propagate commercial puffery. This looks less like an encyclopedia article, more like the spam emails that make it past my filters. It still deserves deletion
— User:Hoary, 06:24, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)