Talk:Café Prückel

message: A most classic Viennese KaffeeHaus. All are equally snubbed. The "Herald Tribune" is racked up on the stand of free newspapers, but sometimes you have to wait a few hours for it. In the days before internet, this was the best way of tracking, for the price of a "Grosse Schwarze", the ongoings of the English-speaking world. Always meticulously served, with a small spoon, a small glass of water, sugar, and a napkin, on a small metal tray, scratched and worn, but still dignant, elegant. You could stay as long as you liked, or at least as long as you could tolerate the universal whithering scorn of the waiter. He didn't care if you wanted to stay or not. Or wanted a dessert or not. Tip the guy more than 2%, and he'd snubb you, you'd clearly overplayed your hand as a corrupt capitalist American, who thought you could buy him off, with mere money. Ha. You pathetic foreigner worm!
So here's the plan. Stay there, wait him out. Pretend to peruse the Kronen Zeitung, as you cast about, every few minutes, looking for whomsoever you're waiting for. The old women, leaning in close, still wrapped in their slow-tattering fur coats - is that Tante Gusti? No, not quite. And that older man, almost bald, shaking his fist dramatically at the ceiling, the sky beyond, sunken face of a dissappointed angel - Onkel Karl? And her, the young cute one, tight-stylishly dressed, in black, with dominatrix boots, leaning into the table, towards the disaffected slouch of a youth, making her point, and then tapping hard at a cigarette - your cousin Andrea? Or one of her friends?
Almost, but not quite. Wait long enough, and surely someone will come. Until then watch, float and drift in a sweet caffeinated haze of Viennamnesia. And whatever you do, show some respect. Don't tip any more than 2%...
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For the reference of the general audience, here's the article that I created to fill wikipedia's blank for the Cafe Pruckl. It was almost immediately deleted, on the grounds of being "absoutely unencyclopedic". This was my response:
Checked wikipedia for an entry for "absoutely unencyclopedic". None exists. The wiki entry for simply "unencyclopedic" states
"...Proposed Policy
An article is "important" and should be included in Wikipedia if any one of the following is true:
   1. There is evidence that a reasonable number of people are, were or might be concurrently interested in the subject (eg. it is at least well-known in a community)...."
In the absence of an existing entry, and as a long-time frequenter of this Kaffeehaus, I believe that my entry represents the perspective of an adequate number of people, who share interest in the subject of the Cafe Prueckl. If my entry is to be challenged or rejected, it should be by someone who has had at the very least, one grosse schwarze, at this cafe. 
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(response to the challenge of the deletion) If you wish to protest a deletion, you may do so at Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. Ingoolemo talk 08:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

message: I've deleted the prior content as a violation of Wikipedia's policy banning original research, and replaced it with a short stub. Anyone who can translate the German on Cafe Prückel's Web site could fill this article out quickly. Thanks. | Klaw ¡digame! 15:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite