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Are there sources to back up Coca-Cola's marketing of Thums Up as a masculine product?

Thums Up challenge to peak masculine aspirations. Hai Dum? (है दम?) roughly translates to "got guts?" For impartial demographics, I don't know. Just that their marketing gimmicks sound similar to the "extreme" marketing of "do the dew" and that kind of stuff. Eewww, am I actually quoting ad campaign slogans? Now I feel sick... Khirad^talk

There sure is! From their site: "Thums Up is known for its strong, fizzy taste and its confident, mature and uniquely masculine attitude. This brand clearly seeks to separate the men from the boys."--Oolong 13:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it called Thums Up and not Thumbs Up?/Marxmax 23:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, maybe someone can comment on why "thumb" is misspelled. Is it just a case of strange indo-english like "press bottly vater" (fresh bottled water)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.107.10.20 (talk) 21:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Manmad Hill?

An explanation of why a picture of Manmad Hill is included would be nice. Sure, I see the connection, but a piece of toast with the image of Jesus on it would not be placed non-contextually on the Wikipedia article for Jesus.

dude the explanation is in the paragraph. would you rather it be a caption? it might clarify its relevance — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.175.30.139 (talk) 11:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved this content to a new "In popular culture" section. Hopefully this makes it a bit clearer. Ibadibam (talk) 22:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article is completely bad...

Is this article about Thums up or the life cycle of thums up? Why is brand killing and other totally unrelated entries are there here? A lot of entries should be just chucked off from this article... What say??? Mugunth 16:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Double Cola

Was the Double Cola marketed in India in the '80s actually the same as Double Cola? If so, how did K.J. International get around the prohibition of multinationals? Ibadibam (talk) 21:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

'90s market share

The article currently states that Thums Up had an 85% market share when Coke was introduced, a figure supported by a source. But here's another source that gives the number as 36%. Is there any way we can get official statistics? Ibadibam (talk) 00:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Ayush friend"?

This term is not an internationally viable one, and should either be referenced/defined or replaced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.152.157 (talk) 13:38, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted – Appears to have been vandalism or an editing test. Ibadibam (talk) 18:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thums Up was once in America

I think there was a limited supply of Thums Up cola in northern Illinois. I remember in 2011 when my mom went to a smoke shop in Crystal Lake, IL near my house and i had to go with her, and I bought a glass bottle of Thums Up cola while in there. So maybe some info needs to be updated. 73.22.153.245 (talk) 20:32, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a small-scale, specialty import? In which case, not something that needs to be in an encyclopedia. Ibadibam (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

C-class with only one ref?!?

And that ref is about the brand being mentioned in Eat, Pray, Love. That's not a major part of the history that's in the article.

I'll go tag the article, but I won't make any further challenge to its rating. Be aware, though, that the entire History section could be deleted by a passing editor since there's no refs, especially the parts that discuss individuals and not companies, no matter how they were involved. —Geekdiva (talk) 10:17, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored many sources that were removed by an anonymous editor in May. Ibadibam (talk) 20:35, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Remove the "Citations Needed" soon?

I've spend the last couple days adding citations to the article. As far as I can see, about 5 more sections need citations. When that's finished, how can I remove the citations needed?

-Cattywampus23 — Preceding undated comment added 15:21, 21 May 2022‎

Delete the line {{More citations needed|date=August 2018}} from the top of the article. Also by the way, auto-sign your posts by typing ~~~~ instead of typing your username. Ibadibam (talk) 04:10, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removing "article needs to be updated"

The article is fully updated, and contains info about its Tokyo 2020 olympics sponsoring. Due to this, I will ask you guys now if you want to remove the "article needs to be updated" as it is unesacary. Cattywampus23 (talk) 19:49, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Cattywampus23[reply]

Closed FFD

@Fastily: I'm not well versed with the workings of FFD but I see a FFD note in the infobox, discussion on which was closed long ago by you. Should that be removed? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 11:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. I've been meaning to write a bot that automatically takes care of these, thanks for the reminder. Regards, FASTILY 23:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]