Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foods with Nationality Names

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The result was delete. Valley2city^‽ 01:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Foods with Nationality Names

Trivial list (see WP:NOT). No other articles link to here. (Author contested PROD). Radiant chains (talk) 16:29, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Orphan list and for seemingly good reason, this is near nonsense and a list for the sake of making a list. treelo _radda 16:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. -- treelo _radda 16:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- treelo _radda 16:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nonsensical list--Caspian blue 16:43, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#DIR, Wikipedia is not the place for a arbitrary lists like this.
Delete while not an indiscriminate list, I fail to see how this list could be useful to anyone—even if fully completed, which it is not close to right now. However, it is a list of loosely associated topics. Fails WP:NOT#DIR -Atmoz (talk) 17:04, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unencyclopedic cross-categorization. Locke9k (talk) 18:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, a loose association of topics like list of foods named after people. Benefix (talk) 20:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It might be loosely associated, but a list like that is a lot more informative and useful than this one. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as all entries are obvious (e.g., "Columbian Coffee" could also be "Any other country Coffee") and a very loose association. TNplinko (talk) 21:16, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Violates WP:NOT#DIR, of practically no encyclopedic value. ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 21:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete. It's interesting as trivia, but little else - and there's no real explanation as to the source of names. Sure, I can fix it, but even so, I see a prediction of a snow storm. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Completely trivial and doesn't take into account regional varieties of language. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/merge Geographical indications of this sort are of major economic, cultural and legal significance and so we have several substantial articles upon the general topic including: Appellation, Appellation d'origine contrôlée, Protected geographical indications in the European Union, Protected designation of origin, Country of origin and Terroir. This list provides a good start for a useful index of foods of this sort and still has more to be added, e.g. Cornish pasty. The arguments above such as trivia, nonsensical and unencyclopedic say nothing of this and so seem to be personal opinions of no value, i.e. WP:IDONTLIKEIT. We should retain this article for consolidation into the others which seem to need list and links to assist navigation around them. Colonel Warden (talk) 13:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete'. It's not a good start on the completely different article Colonel Warden talks about. And it's not much of an article on its own. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 21:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, it certainly is a good start towards the index Colonel Warden is talking about, and explanations can only be added if there is a framework to build on. RenegadeMonster (talk) 12:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The sort of nationality foods are foods named for their origin and branded as such, not dishes named after a place. There is one single thing on this list (Colombian coffee) that is relevant to the topic he's talking about. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 19:14, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename to list of foods named after places to complement list of foods named after people. I think the non-arbitrary nature of the list topic has been proved. It's unfortunate that it's merely a list of links but per WP:CLN "building a rudimentary list of links is a necessary first step in the construction of an enhanced list" Nerfari (talk) 22:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Irish coffee, french fries, and danishes have nothing in common. One is named after an ingredient, one is named after the language of the name that stuck to the dish, and one is named after the origin of the dish. The rest of the list, indeed, is a hodgepodge of random dishes that share names with places or nationalities, with a variety of origins and meanings. How are they part of one topic? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 09:30, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep WP:IAR Jwray (talk) 06:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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