Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuo Yuan


 * 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   keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 00:30, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Kuo Yuan

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Not Notable and no references can be found. Grim23 ★ 18:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:33, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep (and Rescue). The only other source, besides the one cited in the article, I could find in a brief flurry of web-trawling just now was this blog post (you have to scroll down through the entries to find the Kuo Yuan mention). A problem with defunct restaurants, especially those that (as apparently is the case here) died before the internet age, is finding reliable sources. It requires old-fashioned research, as me old dad used to do in the days of newspaper journalism in the last century: you have to go somewhere to look into it and you can't just get it through your monitor and keyboard. Assuming the one source is valid, then this restaurant, as part of a new wave of Chinese cuisine in London, should be notable. As such, it sounds like it's worth keeping (and rescuing). Geoff  Say something! 17:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete as copyright violation. Polarpanda (talk) 19:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * What copyvio? It's a quote. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:05, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:43, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. It was noted in Fielding's Europe as "Kuo Yuan (259 High Road, Willesden Green, NW10) strikes us as one of the best Peking-style contenders in Londontown", and it got an entry in Egon Ronay's guide in 1971, and Fodor's in 1979. Along with Jay Rayner's claims for it, it might be worth keeping. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:05, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


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 * Keep - it appears to be in need of a copy edit, but the claims of its importance to British-Chinese cuisine appear to be genuine. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 18:35, 4 December 2009 (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.