Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Postdlf 04:57, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

Advertising.-- BMIComp (talk) 16:23, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep There are many, many articles about individual restaurants in Wikipedia. (See category:restaurants.) Shall we delete them all? Pepe's is a particularly notable one because it's not only an important part of New Haven culture, but it also has historical significance as the supposed first pizza restaurant in the United States. As the author the page, I have no connection at all to the restaurant, but I'm a former resident of New Haven, have eaten there many times, and I tried to write an unbiased article about it. Dr.frog 16:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. As with Sally's Apizza, there appears to be a problem with this VfD page and how it is linked to main VfD page. Dcarrano 18:48, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, based on claim to being first pizza place in US. The article should originally have been written with that info in the first paragraph, since it is the basic justification for the entry. I missed it myself on a skim. (This has now been fixed.) Dcarrano 18:48, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • I copied it into the end of the first paragraph. I'd like to see verification of this or at least citation that many people actually believe it.RJFJR 18:57, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment Ok, I did a little bit more investigation, and I found some usenet references to it.

First pizza place Well known [1] [2] There are stories about how -- BMIComp (talk) 20:38, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• • Actually, the main justification for the entry is that Pepe's and Sally's are considered a kind of mecca among pizza fanatics, and are also significant as the originators of New Haven-style pizza. I've had foodie friends from all over the US make special trips to New Haven just to eat the pizza -- aside from Yale University, it's probably the thing the city is most famous for. Dr.frog 19:47, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep as per Dr.frog royblumy 00:31 13 July, 2005 (UTC)
• keep, it's a notable place both locally and pizza-culturally. Gzuckier 04:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Apizza and redirect there. This and Sally's are the best-known exponents of the little-known Apizza phenomenon. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 07:17, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above, or send to Wikitravel. Radiant_>|< 09:47, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Yay, a random pizzeria! (Which is funny because other users have compared articles on schools and a housing project to being the equivalent of a pizzeria, and not notable). Look, it's a real place and this is an informative article. There won't be any harm to Wikipedia or to the massive accumulation of knowledge we're undertaking here by keeping this article. Moncrief 21:54, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep! Always has an hour+ wait, has been around for 80 years, and is indeed a pizza mecca. (Reportedly, Frank Sinatra used to send his driver here from New York city to fetch clam pizzas!) Pictures of US presidents eating there line the walls. Has a reasonable claim to "first pizza" in the US. Very important to New Haven culture. A good article about a notable subject with potential for expansion. Brighterorange 16:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

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