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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 02:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Gay Fuel

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There is very little substantial coverage of this product that I'm finding on Google -- mostly Knowyourmeme and that sort of thing. Doesn't appear to be notable beyond some amount of novelty value. GorillaWarfare (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:06, 21 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 02:06, 21 January 2018 (UTC) reply

• Delete Fails to meet WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:SIGCOV. By searching "Gay Fuel energy drink," I found passing mentions here; here; and, an even more passing mention, when searching "Gay Fuel" in gScholar, here. I couldn't find, in a current search using the term "Gay Fuel", articles cited in the first AFD, including [http://www.wnd.com/2004/07/25409/ this] and this, which still come up when launching the old links in AFD No.1. Even so, the sum and breadth of the coverage is not enough to meet notability requirements in general ( WP:GNG). Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 20:47, 22 January 2018 (UTC) reply

• Delete. Lack of substantial coverage. The market for such a drink was small and most new products fail. The odds for this failed product succeeding was stacked against it from the beginning. Knox490 ( talk) 13:07, 28 January 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete. I've tried to source this including digging in the history for lost sources that might have made editors !vote keep in the past. I don't see we have significant coverage to warrant inclusion under GNG, cf. assessment below. Sam Sailor 15:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Source assessment:

Source assessment table:
Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
Here Publishing (June 2004). Out. Here Publishing. pp. 189–.				✘ No
Mark Coggins (30 September 2010). Runoff. Philodox Press. pp. 210–. ISBN  978-0-9829484-4-6. Chris had been participating in a focus group put together by manufacturers targeting products for the trendy, well-to-do gay demographic. The last one I remembered was a horrible concoction called "Gay Fuel." I didn't have the courage to ask what the tea was named.				✘ No
Kevin Lane Keller (2008). Best Practice Cases in Branding: Lessons from the World's Strongest Brands. Pearson/Prentice-Hall. p. 88. ISBN  978-0-13-188865-4. Other entrants in the energy drink category included musician Lil Jon's Crunk brand, Bong Water, Pimp Juice, Shark, and Gay Fuel.				✘ No
Mark Coggins (2006). Candy from Strangers. Philodox Press. ISBN  978-0-9829484-3-9.			Short story in an anthology, simply mentions the product a few times.	✘ No
"Homosexuals fired up over 'Gay Fuel'". WorldNetDaily. 2004-07-05. Retrieved 28 January 2018.		? Fringy; not by-lined	Some detail	? Unknown
"Gay Fuel stiffed Gay Days, judge rules (14655)". The Advocate. 22 December 2004. Retrieved 28 January 2018. {{ cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= ( help)			Not much talk about the product per se	✘ No
Klein, Sarah (May 18, 2005). "Gay Bull and Monster Pimps". Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved January 28, 2018.				✔ Yes
https://web.archive.org/web/20051229003230/http://www.gaysports.com/page.cfm?Sectionid=54&typeofsite=snippetdetail&ID=417&snippetset=yes	Sounds like a press release to me			✘ No
"Apply for a Trademark. Search a Trademark". trademarkia.com. Retrieved 28 January 2018.			Merely a trademark db	✘ No
"13 sorters läsk som du garanterat aldrig skulle vilja dricka" [13 kinds of soda that you guaranteed would never like to drink] (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 28 January 2018. Hitta din målgrupp och ge järnet! Nåja… Den här drycken lanserades i Florida i USA mot en gaypublik. Den är ungefär som red bull, men drycken är rosa. [Find your target audience and give them a hard on! Well ... This drink was launched in Florida in the US targeted towards a gay audience. It's like Red Bull, but the drink is pink.] {{ cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= ( help)			Trivial mention, see quote	✘ No
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