Talk:White Coke

A fact from White Coke appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 October 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke, President Truman quickly obliged? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/White Coke.

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While I have no first-hand knowledge or experience with White Coke, I believe the current maintenance tag indicating that the article might be a hoax is a fine example of WP:DISRUPTive editing because each claim in the article is referenced to reliable sources. Granted, sources themselves might be a part of an elaborate hoax, but that seems quite unlikely as it would have to involve four different authors, editorial boards of two newspapers (including The New York Times), and editorial oversight by BBC News and Cambridge University Press.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]