Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Little Rock restaurants

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Little Rock restaurants[edit]

Just a very unencyclopedic list of 14 restaurant names. Should be deleted as non-notable/promotion. Alarm 17:46, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I completely agree that this list is unencyclopedic. But judging from debates on similar VfDs, the only real question is this: Are there enough Wikipedia editors from Little Rock to block the deletion? ----Isaac R 18:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Reword. I think lists such as this should be merged with their parent articles. In this case, Little Rock, and then modified (having a list wouldn't be suitable, but it will surely be nice to have a section about, for example, gastronomy, at Little Rock). A list of restaurants in a city with 18000+ inhabitants is silly (just imagine "List of restaurants in New Delhi"... PHEW!!!) Sarg 18:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, that would be almost as bad as List_of_people_on_stamps... Isaac R 21:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Probably even worse :) Sarg 21:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Well, I'm from Little Rock and I'm not sure I want to block deletion. I don't think there's much of a purpose for the article, although some of those restaurants (like Restaurant 1620) are a part of Little Rock history and do have an impact on the culture here. So, it's a difficult response for me because I agree it's not encyclopedic, but I think the information could be of some use. --Wolf530 18:38, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Comment: If someone wants to write a new article about a restaurant that is part of Little Rock history and has had a verifiable impact on the culture there, I'm all for it. If there are several such restaurant articles I'd even find a "Little Rock restaurants" category reasonable. And if someone can write a good, NPOV, non-promotional section about gastronomy in Little Rock (that is not a simple listing), I'm all for that too. However, I'm rather convinced that deleting this unencyclopedic article will not decrease the chances of any of those things happening. It shouldn't be left hanging around just because we could use something fundamentally different, albeit on the same topic, that nobody has got around to writing yet. / Alarm 19:02, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:NOT the Yellow Pages.—Wahoofive (talk) 20:06, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, promo. Megan1967 05:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Perhaps I will be going out on a limb here, and maybe I'm just being sensitive b/c I live in Little Rock, but how is this a promo? 2 of the 10 entries have links to the restaurants. Useless, maybe. Promotional, not. --Wolf530 06:49, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
- Every VfD debate has at least one accusation of bad faith. I think it's a rule or something. ----Isaac R 00:35, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Nothing but an unadorned list. No references, no reason to believe any of these are notable. Quale 15:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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