Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thai beer

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The result of the debate was Keep --Allen3 ^talk 13:38, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thai beer

No reason for this article to exist - non encyclopedic. -- Cnwb 13:04, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

• keep - It is encyclopedic, yet it was a substub - I added a little more, but I can't see any reason to delete. Dunc|☺ 14:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I somewhat concede. I think there is a place for an article on Thai beer, and realise now that sometimes substubs can fool one into thinking an article is worthless. I enjoyed many a Singa and Chang during my Thai travels. Cnwb 14:25, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, since it is just an unsubstantiated claim. If it can be substantiated, merge with Singha, which is the beer it is about. If this gets expanded to cover Thai beer more properly in the next 5 days, then I'll reconsider my vote. -Splash 14:39, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as valid stub, although I'll be suprised if it does get expanded. brenneman^(t)(c) 15:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect. Probably to beer, or some article we must have on beer by region. I'd be very surprised if that weren't covered somewhere in WP. -R. fiend 15:41, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Can I take this to mean that yours is not an informed vote? brenneman^(t)(c) 00:19, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Nah, just not terribly specific. But if you want specifics merge/redirect to Beer and nationality. A perfect place for it; it's just this sort of content that is included for other countries there. -R. fiend 21:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, like American beer. Kappa 17:25, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: About the only part of the article that one can't get from list of beers (perhaps clicking on the Thai beers mentioned there) is "due to import restrictions a number of locally brewed Thai beers, sometimes brewed in partnership with western brewers, have sprung up in recent years." (That most Thai beer is lager is not significant; most beer is lager just about anywhwere.) That single sentence, if substantiated, doesn't really warrant its own article, and can be mentioned elsewhere. -R. fiend 17:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Not everyone knows that "most beer is lager just about anywhere", and I don't why users should have to click on various different subtopics just to get an overview of a topic. No users would thank wikipedia for merging this. Kappa 18:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
    • So should we mention in every article about some sort of beer that "lager is the most popular form of beer", and other basic facts about beer: standard ABV is around 3 - 6%; it's made from water, malt, hops, and yeast; etc.? -R. fiend 18:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
      • If lager is the most popular form of beer in a particular country, that needs to be mentioned, unless you think lager is the most popular form of beer in every country, and that wikipedia readers can all be assumed to know that. Kappa 19:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• keep this one too please Yuckfoo 22:26, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment The main Beer article has a section linking to numerous pages of beer by nation, only a minority of which are redlinked. Why pick on this one? -EDM 23:43, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Since there doesn't seem to be all that much to say about Thai beer specifically, merge to Beer_and_nationality. Dcarrano 00:08, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Valid short article with potential to be expanded. -- DS1953 04:03, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. 23skidoo 04:17, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Article can outline how and when beer was introduced in Thailand and why beer drinking has become popular. Capitalistroadster 05:06, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster. Xoloz 16:06, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per Dcarrano. Radiant_>|< 13:11, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. May seem weird that I nominated this and now I'm voting 'keep', but the article has been improved and has shown its potential since I nominated it. Cnwb 23:02, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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