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Charles T. Pepper was one of the Agriculture, food and drink good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
August 22, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed
October 9, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
February 25, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 23, 2017. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that American Civil War Confederate surgeon Charles T. Pepper* was the original inspiration for the Dr Pepper brand soft drink* (1910 logo shown)?
Current status: Delisted good article

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For real?[edit]

I'm curious to whether this man actually existed or is a marketing ploy by Dr Pepper (or whatever umbrella organization it is under). Someone with access to records at the UVA medical school should be able to confirm/deny his existence. I'm going to do some research as well, and not the "original" kind. UPDATE: found this site which seems to point to his non-existence -- Bubbachuck 13:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I grew up in Rural Retreat, VA and used to drive by his old pharmacy (until it burnt down) once I drove to the church where he was buried and found his gravestone. There is plenty of room to debate his relationship to the soft drink, but I can promise that the man existed. Rlaprelle (talk) 23:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Non-existent scientific evidence citation needed?[edit]

Ok I may not be familiar with all of Wikipedia's policies, but seriously, how in the heck do you cite that something didn't exist? --68.226.2.10 08:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Crude writing[edit]

The article is larded from beginning to end with ambiguities of the "I shot an elephant in my pajamas" variety. It reads as if it had been written by an eight-year-old. I don't have the time or patience at the moment to try to sort it out. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)^{T @} 01:20, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hydrargyrum So easy to criticize. Apparently so hard to correct. Or you are above doing actual editing. Drive-by tagging is cheap and lazy.

Easier to throw a bomb than it is to build a bridge.

Thanks for stopping by. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:47, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just sayin'...[edit]

7&6=thirteen (☎)

Hall of Fame[edit]

Article received 6403 hits on the day it became a Did You Know. It has been entered into the July 2017 Hall of Fame statistics.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:04, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Uncertainty[edit]

It is far from certain that Dr Pepper was named after Charles T. Pepper; as this article previously stated, “The origins of the soft drink name Dr Pepper is [sic] obscure.” I have made changes to the article (with additional citations) to reflect this uncertainty.—Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 21:06, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment[edit]

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]