Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South American Chinese cuisine

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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 delete. (ESkog)(Talk) 01:11, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South American Chinese cuisine

Delete-This article seems rather ridiculous. South America is neither a unified country nor culture, and neither would be expect the same of the immigrant communities in them. South America is a huge landmass, and the history of Chinese immigrants differs drastically among different countries such as Brazil and Peru, and some have no more than an insignificant immigrant population. I wouldn't object to articles on Chinese cuisine in the various individual countries (if they exist), but unless someone does some informed article expansion, it's doomed to always be a one-sentence original research stub. --Yuje 01:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete unless notability established. Strong precedent against articles that indiscriminately juxtapose two concepts. Right now there's no info - but if there were, it would have to go into Chinese cuisine or South America - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 03:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep if expanded or reason for its existence can be substantiated, otherwise Delete. I don't have a problem with the stub, it seems to be a legitimate subject, unlike most of the other things put up for AfD. The only contention would possibly be what Yuje brought up, but it's possible that Chinese cousin in South America (somehow) is a fairly unified style? I do not have much information on this, but as I said, if it can be substantiated/verified or possibly expanded, then we should keep it Hobbeslover talk/contribs 03:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete The only real place in South America where there can really be said to be an established Chinese community in South America would be Peru (and I am taking the guess that the author of the article was referring to the chifas around Lima), thus making this title simply incoherent.--Jersey Devil 04:05, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    There is also a small but established Chinese community in Suriname. For no clear reason the article specifically mentions Brazil. --LambiamTalk 04:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete There are several Peruvian-Chinese restaurants in New York City, but I'm not convinced its a unique cuisine of its own (they seem to just divide the menu up into Spanish and Chinese dishes). Anyway, thats just peru, not south america Bwithh 04:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Remark. We also have the stubs European Chinese cuisine, Thai Chinese cuisine, Australian Chinese cuisine, and Japanese Chinese cuisine, all of which are... guess... ... right! "a unique style of Chinese cuisine served by Chinese restaurants in X", where X ranges from Europe to Thailand to Australia to Japan. --LambiamTalk 04:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Wow... incredible... did you notice that they're all {{empty}} - a rephrasing of the title - and all created by the same user on the same day? - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 16:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete without prejudice. Could be a well-written, well-researched and thoroughly sourced article, but isn't. As a stub, it doesn't convince me that the subject can be notable and unified, though a rewrite and expansion could prove me wrong. Vizjim 13:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, non notable. --Terence Ong 14:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep per Hobbeslover Crazynas 15:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep It is an notable as American Chinese food, which is what we Americans think is Chinese food. Dominick (TALK) 17:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep It is a notable subject on Chinese cuisine and a popular Chinese cuisine in Chinatowns in South American countries. --RevolverOcelotX
  • Delete - seems to be sort of a random subject. And I've been to South America... Chinese food in Peru is different then in Chile (for example). "South America" is an imaginary social construct. However... the subject of "Latin-Chinese cuisine" might be viable.... But then again, Peru likes there food with heavier spices then people of Chile. The food ends up drasticly different. So how can you lump them together? This seems like a great topic for a high-school essay. ---J.S (t|c) 20:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Article needs quite a lot of work done to it, but it would be better to let that editing take palce than to simply delete it. Strikes me as a reasonable article, but certainly could do with more info on it to help convince people above. --Wisden17 23:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per J.S. ScottW 23:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as unverifiable unless someone can provide sources. Fagstein 01:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, absurd, no info lost. Pavel Vozenilek 01:43, 2 June 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.