Talk:The Moose's Tooth

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I added a sentence about the restaurant Moose's Tooth in Anchorage. This is one of the most popular restaurants in all of Alaska. Perhaps it merits its own page? Calaf 03:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The mention of Moose's Tooth was removed as the restaurant was considered non-notable. I object to such a classification. Moose's Tooth may be the most well-known restaurant in all of Anchorage. It is invariably listed in any Visitor's Guide to Anchorage. A simple (but interesting) test of notability--a Google search for the term Moose's Tooth. In the top 10 pages we find 8 pages dealing with the restaurant, 1 miscellaneous page about an outdoor company, and 1 page referring to the mountain peak (namely, this very Wikipedia page). Those pages referring to the brewpub include references from a global pub review and a notable restaurant guide. If further comment on this matter doesn't arise in the next 24 hours I will add the reference back. As an Alaskan, I find it humorous that under the auspices of "Wiki Project Alaska," a project attempting to diseeminate better and more thorough information about AK, the Moose's Tooth restaurant is considered non-notable! Calaf 03:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I deleted it, partly because Wikipedia is justly wary of promotional material. The way I interpret that is that the burden is on the person including the information to justify its inclusion. (Note that Google searches are not always a good test of notability partly because they are skewed towards commercial enterprises.) However, you make a case for the notability of the restaurant. I'd say go ahead and include mention of the restaurant together with a citation of a reliable source making clear its significance.

As to making a separate page, I would say, go ahead and do it, if you can make a sourced, neutral page that clearly justifies the notability of the restaurant. (Note that the standard of notability is higher for a separate page, however.) -- Spireguy 20:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I see that a link to pubcrawler.com has been added. I would say that that link in itself does not suffice to show that the restaurant is particularly notable. (Others may disagree.) Is there a better source that actually supports the claim that the restaurant is "the most well-known restaurant in all of Anchorage?" I'm not trying to be a pain or overly skeptical, it's just that there needs to be a source that makes clear the significance. -- Spireguy 12:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm now adding a link to here: http://www.fodors.com/miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=anchorage@11&cur_section=din&property_id=118560 , which indicates the notoriety of Moose's Tooth in the local press among other quality/notability standards. 69.243.106.252 14:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems OK to me now. Thanks for putting those in. -- Spireguy 14:58, 17 July 2007 (UTC)