Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knork (2nd nomination)


 * 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 redirect to List_of_eating_utensils. There is a rough consensus that separate articles for Knork, Sporf and Spife are not warranted but a redirect is appropriate, while for Splayd coverage has been identified so it is keep for that article. Davewild (talk) 20:12, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Knork

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Non-notable form of cutlery. I have heard of a "spork", but never a "knork". Natg 19 (talk) 00:44, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following non-notable forms of cutlery.




 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink -related deletion discussions. Natg 19 (talk) 00:47, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * The articles, especially Knork, seem to meet GNG, although the others are a bit more questionable. However, in any case, I can't think of any notability guidelines for things of this sort. Therefore, although this may be a rather unorthodox !vote, I propose that we create a new article called Hybrid eating utensils and merge all these individual articles into the main one. -- Biblio  worm  01:56, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Biblioworm's proposal is attractive, but this article is at least how such articles should be done -- history, context, no advertising for a given brand -- and some indication of notability (due to historical context -- people just keep inventing them). Therefore, while a master article is a good idea, keep would be how I'd move on this article. Hithladaeus (talk) 14:12, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * On the topic of Splaydes, I believe that a generic collective article is valid if the search parameters permit direct pointing when the search of "Splaydes" or the other terms is used. 58.161.229.24 (talk) 01:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC) Glynnis Copying comment from talk page. Natg 19 (talk) 16:40, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:41, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails GNG. It just seems like something someone invented trying to make a lot of money by copying the spork formula, but has had no real impact or widespread use. There's already an article called list of eating utensils that has these on there and I don't think "hybrid eating utensils" meets GNG. —Мандичка YO 😜 03:06, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Splayds (or splaydes, or splades) are a common eating utensil in Australia. While Wikimandia (—Мандичка) states that the item "has had no real impact or widespread use", this appears to be somewhat dismissive of the continent on which they are used quite extensively.  Wikipedia is intended to be international in its outlook, and presumably will not delete an article just because one part of the world does not use the item in question.  Australians will not know to look for 'knorks' or 'sporfs' when searching for these utensils, so at the very least there needs to be some disambiguation.  There seems good reason either to have separate entries or to combine them as 'Hybrid eating utensils' - as suggested by Biblioworm.

I see that the name for splayds is actually a company name. This is not uncommon in the history of products - the relevant Wikipedia article lists such common nouns as heroin, videotapes and kerosene. That said, maybe the article should be about the company Splayd Utensils - while nevertheless focussing upon that company's somewhat unusual and very well known piece of cutlery. 124.171.68.29 (talk) 14:03, 27 June 2015 (UTC) Copying comment from talk page. Natg 19 (talk) 16:59, 29 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Knork, Sporf, and Spife can be redirected to List_of_eating_utensils where they are already listed. The same was recently done with another implement of this ilk, see Articles for deletion/Chork. Splayd could be redirected there also; however, I did find quite a bit of independent coverage of Splayd, quite possibly enough for a keep. Splayd is a copyright name  rather than generic, so I hate to name an article after it, but that seems to be what it's called - sometimes with a lowercase S.  --MelanieN (talk) 01:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Splayd, redirect the rest. I took a spin on the Australian Google and found a whopping lot of sources for splayds.  Nha Trang  Allons! 11:56, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


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