Talk:Hawaiian Barbecue

Promotional Redirects
Hawaiian Barbecue isn't synonymous with "L&L Hawaiian Barbecue", so shouldn't redirect there. There are many restaurants that sell "Hawaiian Barbecue" besides the L&L Hawaiian Barbecue franchise even though they may have initiated and popularized the term by renaming their chain from L&L Drive-Inn to L&L Hawaiian Barbecue when bringing the restaurants to California. Furthermore, using likely search terms to redirect to a product or company is considered an abusive promotional redirect by Wikipedia.

Previously another Wikipedia editor changed this Hawaiian Barbecue page from a descriptive blurb to redirect to "plate lunch". This redirect may have been more appropriate since "Hawaiian Barbecue" and "plate lunch" are synonymous, but I would argue that the Hawaiian Barbecue page should remain as a description of what it is and how it came to be. My reasoning is that most English speakers are unfamiliar with the concept of a plate lunch and a plate lunch isn't what most would expect when they think of a barbecue, so this page should serve to distinctly make that clarification instead of just redirecting to plate lunch and leaving it to the user to look through that page to figure out the connection.

Rigimoni (talk) 04:27, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with much of what Rigimoni said, but I think rather then an article space for this "descriptive blurb", how about merging it into a section in the Cuisine of Hawaii article? Buddy23Lee (talk) 03:58, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

terrible article
this needs to be scrapped and started over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.179.137 (talk) 02:34, 4 February 2012 (UTC)