The result was delete. The sources provided by Uncle G indicate that a practice of stopping watches on advertisements at ca. 10:10 likely does exist, but there's still no reliable source on it. The content is available on request once a reliable source is in fact found. Sandstein 06:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't contain a single verifiable fact. Dtcdthingy 20:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As Wrs1864 says, there is this source on the article's talk page, which could form one part of the basis for an article. It's far more authoritative than the Straight Dope article. But it doesn't support either the current content of this article or its current title. Similarly, the stupidquestion.net article appears to have been reasonably well researched and fact checked, but it doesn't match what the article currently says or what its title currently is. I'm going to hunt for some sources, but given what sources we already have I'm currently at weak keep with the strong provisio that the article requires a major rewrite to remove the unsourced speculation and hypothesising and to include the material from the Elgin source, and almost certainly renaming (to something like watch times in advertisements) as well.
I hereby reserve the right to discover, now that I finally have cause to research it, that what I've known for so many years is wrong. ☺ Uncle G 18:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]