Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hospital food


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  11:32, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Hospital food

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Poorly focussed page where the lede is talking about British hospitals but other countries are shoehorned in later. It's a collection of international anecdotes which are cobbled together for a particular narrative (ie hospital food is bad in the UK and elsewhere) WP:SYNTH. There might be some other way to write a page on this topic, but this needs WP:TNT JMWt (talk) 10:48, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink and Health and fitness. JMWt (talk) 10:48, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Such a mess that it's a textbook WP:TNT. As nom says article is a perfect case of WP:SYNTH. On another note I'm shocked that an editor would create an article for a global encyclopedia and write it almost exclusively about the United Kingdom. How can an article titled "Hospital food" start with "Food in UK hospitals has been the subject of attention from celebrity chefs"? Notability of the subject itself is not established by the article, because it is simply a collection of mentions, including that a hospital ran out of food. AusLondonder (talk) 15:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete: Might be an article about hospital food in the UK, but this isn't it. I mean, we have sources online about food in hospitals, usually just saying how unimportant or bland it is. I'm not sure even those would make an article... Oaktree b (talk) 15:39, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I can certainly find material that could be used to write an article on the topic of hospital food. Just a Google Scholar search with nothing fancy gives me pages of articles, discussing the logistics of providing hospital food, public perceptions about hospital food, nutritional complexities of hospital food, strategies to get patients to actually eat the hospital food, and so on. This is all really far removed from things I'm familiar with, and I'm not sure I feel up to the challenge of replacing what's been written with something more comprehensively relevant to the topic, but I'm sure someone could. I don't know what standard practice is here. Is this bad enough that it needs to be discarded versus putting up with it until someone rewrites it? Lubal (talk) 18:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes per WP:TNT we don’t keep poor content on the pretext that someone might fix it at some point when it is this bad JMWt (talk) 18:25, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment. For the future, when a viable article on this topic is recreated, is there really a difference between hospital food and nursing home food? While there is a difference from other types of institutional food, I note that our article on prison food is not exactly star quality either. Geschichte (talk) 08:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * If someone creates Food in institutional settings, I'm blaming you. -- asilvering (talk) 03:11, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Orphanage food? Geschichte (talk) 19:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC)


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