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The Pizza Meter

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This article attempts to show that this is a real, coherent concept, when in fact it's just a single Domino's pizza store owner's post hoc observations synthesized into something supposedly substantial. Citation 2 (available here from 1991) is his very brief (unverified) claim of delivering more pizzas to the White House, CIA, and Pentagon, including ahead of the invasion. Then at cite 1 (here from 1991) the same Domino's owner briefly makes the same claim that late-night deliveries to government offices increased. That's it! Cite 3 is from the unreliable "rec.humor.funny" about the same claim from the same year, cite 4 very briefly mentions the same 1991 reports, and cite 5 is a brief, unreliable anecdote from someone who heard the same factoid on the radio. This is one person's anecdata that got some very brief attention, not a verified or meaningful phenomenon as the article puffs it up to be, and not something notable deserving of a standalone article. People order delivery when they work late, so what? Reywas92^Talk 19:12, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Military, Politics, and Washington, D.C.. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:16, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
• Delete: Might have been a wikipedia article in the 1990s... I don't see coverage of this since that time frame. I'd expect it to continue into the multiple invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oaktree b (talk) 20:19, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
• Delete: per OP. Seems to be one (non-notable) claim by the local Dominos which just got repeated by a few outlets. — Czello ^(music) 21:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Does it really need to stand up to robust analysis in order to be notable enough for an article? e.g. Waffle House Index, Big Mac Index, etc. Whether a concept is epistemologically sound is not related to its notability. Or, put another way, we have articles for things like Divination and Fortune Telling. We don't delete them just because those things have no supporting evidence for their efficacy. Fredo699 (talk) 22:39, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Notability and verifiability are separate criteria. The nominator isn't basing their deletion rationale on the lack of robust evidence but rather the fact that it's an insignificant "concept" based solely on unverified observations from a single Domino's pizza store owner. Mooonswimmer 00:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Apparently there was a short-lived annual report put out by Dominos in the mid-90s called the "Pizza Meter," based on interviews of 500 deliverers and store managers nationwide (see here, here). Potential redirect to Domino's Pizza? Mooonswimmer 00:26, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Keep: I actually saw a video on youtube that referenced the 'pizza index' and came here to get more information. Seems like the purpose of Wikipedia is to provide that exact service. Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRohz9VO1YY Tkircher (talk) 22:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)