Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pineapple fritter
Pineapple fritter was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE with fritter. 4 votes to delete, 1 votes to merge/delete, 6 votes to merge without any preference stated as to redirect. I find the result ambiguous as to whether a redirect shall be kept, so I will go ahead and make it into a redirect, to be dealt with later on RfD if anyone feels strongly about it. Postdlf 13:49, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Pineapple fritter[edit]
Is this encyclopedic? If not, Pea fritter and Apple fritter even less so. — Bill 12:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Move all of these into Typical British food, or something like that. Wyllium 14:47, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
- The concept of a fritter should probably deserve an article, and Pineapple fritter, with some of the cruft removed, could make a decent stub. I vote to move the page to fritter and delete the redirect it creates. Delete Pea fritter and Apple fritter, as they won't make good redirects. -- [[User:Bobdoe|BobDoe]] 16:17, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Merge all into fritter. Other articles by the same user on similar subjects include: Pea fritter, Apple fritter, Fritters; all food articles by this user need checking for encyclopedi-ness. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 17:34, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. I don't feel that food descriptions are encyclopedic. --Improv 17:44, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree, from the amount of times I remember explaining to foreigners what a 'fritter' actually is, it is entirely an encyclopedic subject. But dividing it between the (countless) types of fritter you can get (my local chip shop does mince pie fritters every Christmas...) is not encyclopedic, and I stick to my opinion above that they should all be merged. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 18:03, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete along with Pea fritter and Apple fritter. A Fritter article with significant history would be okay. If so, redirect Fritters to it, otherwise delete that one, too. -- WOT 21:23, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: We fritter away our time with too many of these. A simple Wiktionary definition of a fritter is plenty. We're not going to discuss each fritter, it's important role in the Battle of Waterloo, or its duty during The Anarchy (when there were no fritters to be found anywhere). Geogre 21:28, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Merge all these articles to fritter, that has very much potential to become encyclopedic —siroχo 22:47, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Merge into fritter. A fritter is certainly a notable item, not just in England. Conch and alligator fritters are semi-famous in Key West Fla. Apple fritters are very famous too. They certainly do not each need their own articles though. Fritters needs to be merged and redirected to Fritter of course. - Taxman 22:51, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Fritters are encyclopedic; varieties are not (or at least I'll need convincing, and this doesn't do it). Merge to fritter. And for an example of a good article that's analagous, Geogre, see funnel cake. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 22:52, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- I agree, Meelar, that we can make encyclopedia articles on foodstuffs. I'm just very curmudgeonly about them. To me, it just seems a stretch, unless it's a national dish or a dish that made a revolution (the potato). Now, of course, I wish I had a funnel cake, or at least some boiled peanuts (tell me there is an article on the dish of the South). Geogre 01:14, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- And for an example of a food article that needs a complete rewrite, if not a speedy delete for being an insult, do see boiled peanuts. Looks like it was written by someone whose only experience of the south was driving to Disney World. Very disrespectful. Geogre 01:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I agree, Meelar, that we can make encyclopedia articles on foodstuffs. I'm just very curmudgeonly about them. To me, it just seems a stretch, unless it's a national dish or a dish that made a revolution (the potato). Now, of course, I wish I had a funnel cake, or at least some boiled peanuts (tell me there is an article on the dish of the South). Geogre 01:14, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Writing as the person who created the "fritter" articles I've got to say all this seems a bit excessive! A lengthy discussion is quite out of proportion to the subject. A simple little note on my "talk" page would've been sufficient to get me to merge the offending articles. I mean, for goodness sake, I probably would've decided, after further consideration, that they looked better merged anyway. Still, they're merged now, as are the couple of "toast and" articles. --wayland 09:34, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- If no one has any objections, I'll create a redirect fritter. Incidently, listing on VfD isn't a personal attack. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:28, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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