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The result was redirect to ade. MBisanz ^talk 06:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cherryade[edit]

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Non-encyclopedic; reads like a how-to for preparing as much as anything else. No references. There's nothing that couldn't be adequately covered in another article, either soft drinks or lemonade. —C.Fred (talk) 04:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge/Redirect to ade, soft drinks or lemonade. Pyrrhus16 15:12, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 16:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 00:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to soft drink as this is a useful search term, but there's nothing to merge; the only unique content in cherryade comes in the form of a how-to manual for making cherryade. Baileypalblue (talk) 00:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • To that or to ade? —C.Fred (talk) 01:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I'd say that "Cherryade" is nothing more then a neologism... --Pstanton (talk) 03:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• A name used at least as far back as 1870 (in Gunter's modern confectioner, published by Dean & Son, London) is hardly a neologism.

  Ironically, it is ade that is the neologism here. It's not a category name for a class of drinks. (The category name is soft drink.) It's a simple suffix, -ade, meaning "made from", that happens to be productive, and it is arguable whether it has been lexicalized yet. It seems ironic to be wanting to redirect the article with the attested word title to the article with the title that isn't a word yet. Uncle G (talk) 14:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • There's an even older reference to cherryade in The Keepsake (Mansel Reynolds, 1843). Just a passing mention in a list of beverages, but I agree, it's hardly a neologism. Majorly talk 17:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I've cut down all the fluff and stubbed it. I'll see if there's anything else to add. Majorly talk 17:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.