Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British fried chicken outlets

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. SushiGeek 03:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British fried chicken outlets

Article whose sole point seems to be that there are fried chicken restaurants in the UK, some of whom have names similar to American fried chicken chains. Delete as unencyclopedic. MCB 05:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. The very unexpectedness of this phenomenon (Muslim-sanctioned American-commercial fast-food establishments in the heart of the old empire) is notable in itself. Bacchiad 06:10, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. I really don't think that the fact that Muslims like fast food as well is notable. ConDem^Talk 06:24, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It's like reading a bad local newspaper on a slow news day. per nom. Eivind^t@c 07:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Much as I enjoy http://badgas.co.uk/, this article seems to have been written in order to provide a link to the Bad Gas feature and really isn't encyclopedic IMO. CLW 08:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. 193.122.31.188 09:48, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Note: this vote may be from an anonmyous editor, but please see the editor's contribution history - all seems to be useful, sensible and constructive. CLW 09:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Arnzy (Talk) 10:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep -- obviously not yet a complete article, but seems to be about a notable phenomenon (see all of the restaurants of this ilk mentioned on the reference). Also just really interesting for reasons given by Bacchiad. Interestingstuffadder 14:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Calling growth of fried chicken stands in the UK a "notable phenomenon" stretches the term dramatically; it is neither. This is non-encyclopedic trivia that you'd see in a copy of the daily Metro and forget before you were halfway through your first cup of coffee. RGTraynor 14:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, unencyclopedic. --Terence Ong 14:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to Fried chicken restaurants in the UK which is a much better article -- Astrokey44|talk 15:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Hmmm. I didn't see that article before nominating this one, but frankly, I don't see the encyclopedic value of that one, either. Perhaps someone can better explain why the existence of fried chicken stands in the UK is a "notable phenomemon". It seems utterly trivial and commonplace to me. MCB 17:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
    • comment I would have to agree that that article should be deleted as well. More original research. Though I feel like I ab being a dick saying this...Roodog2k 22:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. —LrdChaos 20:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom as useless Imarek 21:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• delete as original research. Roodog2k 22:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • comment unless this was renamed and redone as a List of British Fried Chicken Outlets... MAYBE... Roodog2k 22:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hencruft Just zis Guy you know? 22:44, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 23:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Properly expanded, this article is a heck of a lot more useful than List of defunct United States military academies or List of ERP vendors, and a whole lot less Original Research than List of songs that have been considered among the greatest ever or Education in Macau. Wikipedia is not paper. wikipediatrix 04:35, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to Fried chicken restaurants in the UK and try to improve combined article - What the article asserts is true enough, but what it doesn't say is how relatively popular fried chicken is in the UK compared to anywhere else, how long it has been that way, how many are there, who runs them, and whether fried chicken is simply the easiest thing to turn a former fish and chip shop into in light of changing tastes, etc. There's possibly an interesting story there, but it needs a little more in the way of facts, and since we have two similar articles, we ought to combine them and bring them up to Wikipedia standards. ProhibitOnions 09:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

• As far as I can tell there is nothing in this article which is based on verifiable citations from reliable sources. At least Fried chicken restaurants in the UK makes some attempt to be neutral (well, OK, it had one paragraph which was reasonably neutral). Just zis Guy you know? 11:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but this isn't a magazine article or a fluff piece on TV, it's an encyclopedia entry, and coming up with a fun and fascinating story isn't quite the aim here. RGTraynor 13:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as encyclopedic topic, but shorten to a few sentences removing all the crap about names and "poor people" and leave Delete as I'm typing the above I'm realizing that there's no verification of the fact about "growing number of chicken restaurants". The whole article is POV without that. We don't need analysis about chicken places, even though the Halal thing is an interesting factoid. Just delete. -- cmh 01:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Prohibit Onions Robdurbar 21:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.