Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom's Restaurant (Brooklyn)

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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 was delete. Mailer Diablo 10:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tom's Restaurant (Brooklyn)

This establishment doesn't seem to be all that notable, despite the article's claims of favorable reviews and such. I can't really be sure, though; although I know a lot about New York City, I'm not too familar with the restaurant scene. --Larry V (talk | contribs) 03:15, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep It seems to be a notable restaurant in the area. However, if this article gets deleted, it has been added to AntiWikipedia It also has a more elaborate version of the article.24.90.233.29 21:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep; I (being from Canada) ate there just a few weeks ago, it's one of the oldest restaurants in Brooklyn and is apparently quite well known in Park Slope and such for good breakfasts. Normally I wouldn't vote keep on a restaurant AfD that doesn't assert clear notability like the other Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan... but I'm doing so primarily on the basis that every Brooklynite I've asked knows this place. -/- Warren 03:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment See, I'm from Queens. That should be quite evident. Exactly why I put this up for discussion, since I clearly don't know enough about it myself. =) --Larry V (talk | contribs) 04:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, single restaurants are rarely notable enough for an encyclopedia entry. The Brown Derby is the only one that I can think of that I would recommend keeping. -- Kjkolb 05:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete article does not assert notability. Phr (talk) 09:04, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete: It's an A7 speedy delete, but I must say that I think this particular diner gets some play in contemporary navel gazing New York culture. Wikipedia, however, is not a Zagat's guide. Geogre 11:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, as per Kjkolb Dlyons493 Talk 12:21, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Question - Is this the same Tom's in the Suzanne Vega song and on Seinfeld? PT (s-s-s-s) 16:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

No. -/- Warren 17:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
That's Tom's Restaurant (Manhattan), on the Upper West Side. I live a few blocks away. For the diner with probably the biggest free pubicity in the world by far, the food is really mediocre and compares not so well with other diners in the area. As for the Brooklyn namesake, I lived in Park Slope for a few months and never heard of it Bwithh 04:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, WP:NOT the Yellow Pages. There's nothing in the article which leads me to believe it's WP:ENC. --Kinu t/c 17:15, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Clubmarx 18:11, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. For what it's worth, I lived just a couple of blocks from there for 6 years and never heard of the place. Really should be a speedy A7. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. As others have said, it probably could be speedy. Warrens makes a better argument in his week keep than the page itself does. Erechtheus 21:16, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
    • That's kind of scary, actually. :) -/- Warren 04:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete' as above Bwithh 04:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment To be fair, I just saw this recent post on Gothamist about the restaurant[1]. It does appear to be have some very local reputation, and also seems to be the better eating place than the Upper West Side one - but not by any means as encyclopedically notable. My vote stays at delete Bwithh 18:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Gothamist is a redlink... a bit surprising. *shrug* Bwithh 18:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. I've lived in Brooklyn 5 years and N.Y. metro all my life. I have never heard of this place. --Nelson Ricardo 01:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete unless it can be shown that this restaurant has any notability outside of the local area. If it's not even being mentioned in other dining guides or airplane magazines, I can't agree that it's notable. --Elonka 18:11, 25 July 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.