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Iceberg Vodka (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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The page is a slightly spammy product description of a vodka product. The only claim to notability is an unsourced one that it won the 2006-07 Golden Icon Award for Best Vodka. But what is this award? There is an eponymous entertainment award, but searching for an award by this name for vodka only leads to this product. The page claims this is the Travolta Family Entertainment award, which is not the same, as far as I can tell, as the show business award. Travolta Family Entertainment is a quickly abandoned trademark [1], and I suspect the award was invented so that it could be given to this vodka. Certainly no evidence to the contrary. If that is correct, this is unashamed product spam. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 17:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Advertising and Products. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 17:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink and Canada. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:35, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. No sources found that would help to establish notability. Dirubii Olchoglu (talk) 11:11, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cult brand (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Some kinda essay or dictionary definition, not an encyclopedia article. I am also nominating these pages for the same reason: Icon brand & Symbol-intensive brand. Polygnotus (talk) 07:10, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Advertising and Management. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as this article is mostly OR and its topic is a sub-category of Symbol-intensive brand, above. If that article is kept, I could support a partial merge of this article with that one. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:39, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to see if there support for a possible Merge.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:09, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Lifestyle brand. Lamona (talk) 02:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but remove all OR and other unsourced material. BoraVoro (talk) 11:21, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  @BoraVoro: What will be left? Only a dictionary definition. WP:NOTDICT Polygnotus (talk) 18:43, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  good question. I agree with NOTDICT guideline. BoraVoro (talk) 07:31, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Aydoh8^[contribs] 09:54, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Symbol-intensive brand (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Some kinda essay or dictionary definition, not an encyclopedia article. I am also nominating these pages for the same reason: Icon brand & Cult brand. Polygnotus (talk) 07:10, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Advertising and Management. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:20, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the "See also" in your nomination is somewhat confusing. For clarification, I would recommend changing it to something a long the lines of "I am also nominating these pages for the same reason" -1ctinus📝🗨 17:42, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@1ctinus: Thanks!  Fixed Polygnotus (talk) 20:18, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete: The one possibly reliable source I could find is this: [2], a scholarly article that uses the concept extensively. Additionally, I can find a Forbes Contributor article (which does not count for notability): [3], and an interview with the professor who coined the term: [4]. These are either unreliable or non-independent. If anyone could find one additional independent source, I would change my delete to a keep. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:36, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There is a suggestion on the AFD for Cult brand to Merge this article to that one.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:16, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with Lifestyle brand. Everywhere that I found (and it wasn't much) that uses this term it was considered a form of lifestyle brand. This article states that it is a super concept to lifestyle brand, which I question. What is here that is specific to Symbol-intensive brands could be added, perhaps as a section, in the lifestyle brand article. That article already includes much of the psychological aspects of branding. Lamona (talk) 02:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 21:29, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]