Talk:Capitol Hill mystery soda machine

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Date	Process	Result
July 27, 2023	Articles for deletion	Kept
December 12, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 30, 2023.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the allegedly haunted Capitol Hill mystery soda machine "went for a walk" one day and never returned?

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"Amusement rides by name" category

Is there a way to suppress the "Amusement rides by name" category? I would not consider this subject an amusement ride by any means. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:44, 27 December 2019 (UTC) I am not sure how to get rid of it as it doesn't appear in the source for the page, yet I can still see it in the article.Ambo100 (talk) 00:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Issue is the type of infobox used. Template:Infobox artifact is for amusement park rides or attractions. I've put in the field to mark it as not a ride, but that defaults it to putting it in the 'amusement park attraction' category. I'm having a look here WP:IB to see if there's a more obvious template but nothing's jumping out.219.88.68.195 (talk) 02:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Easter 2020 sighting

I saw a copy of this in Shoreline tonight along 175th St. (30 streets north of Seattle.) Trying to find the location via satellite maps & street view (which are from some time ago & don't show the machine) it looks like the parcel on the northwest corner of N 175th St & Ashworth Ave N.

Heading west & uphill, it was glowing outside a fence on the right side of the street, set back from the road in a little grassy field. It's an old Coke machine, but not the same as the photographs in the article. One large button for Coke on top and a couple of "Mystery" buttons below, and a link for the old machine's Facebook page. Price was still 75 cents. Foliage Green (talk) 11:03, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Foliage Green: pics or it didn't happen. - Alexis Jazz 19:40, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexis Jazz: I went back & found the location again. Turns out it's not Ashworth, it's several blocks further east, NE 175th St & 8th Ave NE. The Coke machine outside the house on the NW corner of the intersection is visible on Google Street View, although not close enough to see the "Mystery" buttons. (Position yourself in 8th Avenue looking west up the lot's driveway, it's only visible from one spot that's 3 clicks north of the place in the middle of the intersection where you get 4 arrows. If you drag the little yellow guy onto the crosswalk you should be in the right spot.) I took some closer pictures & will upload them once I get the adapter I need. Foliage Green (talk) 06:41, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And there it is: commons:Category:Copies_of_Capitol_Hill's_mystery_soda_machine. Higher resolution pictures when I get a new camera. Foliage Green (talk) 03:01, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notable?

It's a vending machine. And likely a PR attempt by Coca Cola. Recommend deleting this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.166.254.215 (talk) 23:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

given that most vending machines are equally "mysterious" in the sense that they do not advertise who stocks them [cuz nobody cares...], this is not even a remarkable vending machine -- although in this case it's rather self-evident and obvious who the owner/stocker is, as is their motivations for keeping up the "lore". agreed this article should be deleted. Mcslinky (talk) 02:47, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should “mystery soda machine” be capitalized?

As in Mystery Soda Machine DogsRNice (talk) 20:55, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DogsRNice, probably not. MOS:CAPS requires it to be capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources, which does not seem to be the case (e.g., [1] and [2]). Rublov (talk) 11:23, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More?

Is there any more to this story? It couldn't have just disappeared. Please do tell if you know to where else it may be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.54.138.111 (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It really did just disappear one day. The locksmith is adamant that they have nothing to do with it and have kept to their story this whole time. When asked directly they claim that the city asked for the machine to be removed because the sidewalk was being rebuilt with a new bus bulb, shelter, and lights. I can't find any interviews with them saying that so there's nothing I can cite. I can't really add it to the article without a ^{[citation needed]}. It's a much nicer sidewalk now but the machine still hasn't returned. Blueal (talk) 23:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What unusual flavors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.76.175.47 (talk) 23:37, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 14:49, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the allegedly haunted Capitol Hill mystery soda machine "went for a walk" one day and never returned? Source: Lloyd, Sarah Anne (2018-09-06). "What is Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine up to?". Curbed. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
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Improved to Good Article status by TechnoSquirrel69 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:35, 13 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Capitol Hill mystery soda machine; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

This is my third DYK nomination, so no QPQ (yet). Thanks to Epicgenius for the hook idea! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 06:36, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a new reviewer and would like a second opinion:
- WP:DYKNEW: OK, Talk:Capitol Hill mystery soda machine/GA1 on Dec 12.
- WP:DYKLEN: OK, 3,392 characters.
- WP:DYKCITE: OK, some sources are small-ish local media, which I think is OK given the topic.
- WP:DYKTAG: OK, just GA'ed and no edit war.
- WP:DYKHOOKCITE: the source says "A rapidly shifting landscape has thrown a Capitol Hill staple, a mysterious and maybe haunted soda machine typically chained up outside Broadway Locksmith, for a loop. [...] Then, it up and disappeared back in June, leaving a sticker that read simply, “went for a walk.”" (This other source, of higher quality, says the same thing). This 2023 source confirms the end of the hook ("never returned").
- WP:DYKINT: 100%, fun story!
- WP:DYKMOS: OK, 106 characters.
- WP:DYKIMG: OK, only one image, File:Coke machine on E. John St. in Capitol Hill, Seattle (2014).JPG, CC-BY-SA.
- Wikipedia:QPQ: OK, not needed
- Wikipedia:DYKCRIT: Overall, everything looks good to me.
a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 08:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, A455bcd9, and for going above and beyond with the source check! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:48, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- Initial review had it right: this is good to go. Nice work all. @A455bcd9: please feel welcome to use this review as a QPQ. @TechnoSquirrel69: I have moved some of your comments to be in appropriate chronological order and to not be beyond the exclusion area at the bottom of this template. Again, great work. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 20:36, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible photo

I took File:Seattle - September 11, 2024 - 27.jpg, which shows where the soda machine was installed. Worth adding to the article?

@TechnoSquirrel69: Asking since I believe you're the primary author of this entry. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 23:16, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Another Believer: I appreciate you for doing that but, to be honest, is there really much remarkable about an image of the sidewalk with no soda machine on it? I'm also thinking about the relatively short length of the article, which makes it more diffucult to squeeze another image in without running into sandwiching issues with the infobox. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:49, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think an image needs to be remarkable to be potentially helpful. This photo shows where the machine operated and the article mentions the "nearby bus stop and sidewalk". If I felt strongly about including the photo, I would have added it myself. No worries either way and thanks for your work on this entry! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:09, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]