Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pizzeria Napoli (Baghdad)

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Defaulting to "keep." Joyous 00:11, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pizzeria Napoli (Baghdad)

Article on a restaurant. Not encyclopedic. Mattley 20:57, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Restaurant articles may be encyclopedic if the restaurant is notable or historic. I don't know that this article makes enough of a case for this one, and article is an orphan. -- Infrogmation 21:36, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. So little server space, and the kind of little gem you'd love to come across on Special:Randompage. Smoddy | ειπετε 22:33, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Almost interesting, but not encyclopedic. -R. fiend 23:10, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's only natural that new businesses have opened up in occupied Iraq, isn't it? There must be hundreds of them. What makes this one different? What makes it different from the first Italian restaurant to open up in any town or city? If it's really that interesting the content could be added to an article on Baghdag or occupied Iraq. As an article in its own right, just not encyclopedic. Mattley 23:28, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Interesting, useful, encyclopedic.--Centauri 02:03, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Merge. This is highly interesting, but unencyclopedic. However, it is an interesting historical footnote, and I'd like to see it merged into one of the many Iraq war articles we have. Neutrality^talk 02:06, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Delete, not yet notable enough, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 02:50, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Vaguely notable. --JuntungWu 05:08, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Marginal keep. Noteworthy enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. GRider\^talk 19:00, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I'm genuinely puzzled. I really do fail to see that this is even interesting, let alone encyclopedic, for the reasons I've mentioned above. Would someone please elaborate on why they take the opposite view. I don't mean to be a dick about this but I'd like to know why people have voted to keep. Mattley 13:55, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. What Mattley said. —Korath (Talk) 01:21, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. A Notable place of business in Iraq based on the fact that coalition troops frequent it. Notable from a military history standpoint in my POV. --JPotter 18:36, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep or "merge": this is a window into something. I am not sure this ultimately belongs in an article of its own, and I think a broader article would be more appropriate, but until someone has the right place to merge it to, we should keep. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:38, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete. This is not in any way notable or encyclopedic. There are hundreds of thousands of restaurants in the world and probably at least a thousand in a city the size of Baghdad alone. I am honestly surpised at the number of keep votes here. Even schools are far more notable than this one pizza place out of thousands and thousands. Indrian 00:10, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Mattley said it. Edeans 08:33, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. A nice slice of life. A less nice WP article. Gtabary 10:43, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; not notable enough for an encyclopedia. Psychonaut 16:26, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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