Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pizza box

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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 Merge to Pizza delivery. The merge was already done, so nothing else needs to be done but a redirect. Deathphoenix ʕ 02:19, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pizza box

This article has no use and is on a non-notable topic. It doesn't even need to be transwikied as this is not a definition of a word, nor of a phrase that cannot be understood from its constituent parts, both of which (Pizza and Box) have their own definitions already. It is not possible to give a cultural history of the pizza box, nor its current cultural impact: it's a box; it contains pizza; that's it. Vizjim 16:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Update comment - I've put all of the current content of this article into Pizza delivery, where it's in context and makes sense. The onus is on those voting to keep to provide new content for the article that would justify its existence, as currently it is entirely redundant. No information currently in Wikipedia will be lost by deleting this article.Vizjim 09:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The only loss in deleting this article will be to Ric Romero. Fluit 20:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable enough noun. This seems at least as notable as cardboard box and popcorn bag, both of which survived AfDs. youngamerican (talk) 16:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC) Merge per edits to pizza delivery by Vizjim. youngamerican (talk) 02:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. I fail to see the notability. The article itself simply restates the obvious, and it boggles the imagination to think of how this article could be expanded. Tautology at its finest. Fluit 17:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not everyone who reads the English Wikipedia has seen or eaten a pizza, so are hardly likely to know what a pizza box is. Markb 18:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Vizjim and Fluit. If they don't know what a pizza is, this article won't help them. If they do know what a pizza is, they won't need an encyclopedia article to figure out that a pizza box is a box with pizza in it. Fan1967 18:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - what's next, spice rack or pickle jar?--Nydas 18:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete - I submit that it is possible to give a cultural history of the pizza box, but it would be pretty trivial, though I'd love to be surprised. — AKADriver ☎ 18:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Fan1967, unless someone can show reliable sources describing some sort of cultural history that's not trivial or commercial. I'll point out by comparison that popcorn bag survived AfD because there were citations showing that it was a bit of technological pioneering that influenced the industry. I've never seen anything saying "innovative use of the previously near-cubic cardboard box enabled the start of the delivered-pizza industry," for example. (My POV disclosure: I love pizza and often eat box-delivered pizza, but I have no financial stake in pizza-box stocks.) Barno 19:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I don't see anything that warrants an encyclopedia article. --Ed (Edgar181) 20:14, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as nominated. Unfortunately, dicdefs of mundane nouns usually get kept. Dust bunny and Pillow fight were kept after I brought them to AfD. Brian G. Crawford 20:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Until there is some vague idea of where to bring this article that might make it, well, an article... Lundse 22:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge with Pizza. Very funny nomination for deletion though. I notice no "pizza delivery" section on pizza "Pizza is a common take-out or delivery item in which it is often delivered in a cardboard box called a pizza box..." --Nick Y. 01:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh, but let you introduce you to my thoroughgoing friend pizza delivery. Vizjim 12:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - look at the history - nobody has tried to do anything substantive with it in a year and a half. If someone wants to create a good article, they can, but this one is little more than an obvious dictionary definition. BigDT 02:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and Expand I see no reason why this can't be expanded with the history and variations of the pizza box.. It could also include related products like those plug in bags Dominos has.. EnsRedShirt 06:10, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete after any interesting facts (none yet!) are merged with Pizza. -- GWO
  • Redirect to pizza delivery, without prejudice. Stifle (talk) 20:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand, easily. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 22:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Go for it! Vizjim 08:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I'm not sure I support a merge or redirect to pizza delivery since not only delivered pizza is boxed, carry-out pizza and sometimes eat-in pizza is boxed too. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Seriously, why would you want to keep this article? It's a non-notable dictionary definition which nobody would be likely to search for, the entire content of which is duplicated in another article anyway. Nobody's expanded it in a year and a half, and nobody during the course of this AfD vote has managed to work out a way of expanding it beyond a pointless nn dicdef stub. Vizjim 13:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to pizza or pizza delivery. -Sean Curtin 03:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep potentially interesting topic.  Grue  10:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. This is really quite beyond the limit, IMHO, and I think the creator, while doubtless well-intentioned, has not understood what an encyclopedia article is. I agree with Fluit. —Encephalon 05:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Looking at the article history, this was first created during as part of the creation of the 1U server article, and was not originally intended to be an article at all. Merge content into pizza delivery, then delete. -- The Anome 12:43, 14 May 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.