Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Canadian restaurants


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The result was   keep. No arguments for deletion aside the nom. The name of the article can be further debated on the talk page. JForget 01:25, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Canadian restaurants

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List of restaurant chains, almost all of which have their own article. This list article appears to have been cobbled together over time and the entries lack coherence. Most of the worthwhile information that is in here could be incorporated into the relevant articles. There is already a 'Restaurants in Canada' category so this article would then be redundant CosmicJake (talk) 12:18, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * keep because it contains a lot of unique information and some of the companies which are big players in the Canadian market do not have their own articles (MTY Food Group, Chairman's Brand Corporation, Imvescor, Opa Souvlaki, Vanelli's) and the ones that do are largely very big companies with articles that are very long, information about those companies was added to, condensed and so useful in a list. There are many unique references and a lot of the information is properly researched.  List of Canadian restaurants includes useful information on some companies that don't have their own articles (some of them are major players in the Canadian industry Chairman's brand corporation, imvescor, opa souvlaki of Greece, vanelli's).  the article has been up for a couple years and has been receiving views.  It provides useful detailed information on food restaurants that are based in Canada, there are not many if any other lists or articles that do that.  Many people seeking information on the Canadian industry might only be interested in a small amount of general information on each company, just a general overview of the companies that comprise the Canadian market that are Canadian.  The articles don't offer that because of requirements that they have a certain amount of pages linking to them, references. Thoses requirements also make it difficult for some parent company's like imvescor and chairmans to have their own articles because there isn't enough information about them to make their own article. I have found this page useful and I'm sure I'm not the only person who does.Grmike (talk) 12:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)grmike
 * Keep but Rename as List of Canadian restaurant chains (because it's specifically about chains, not all Canadian restaurants) and rewrite as a categorized stand-alone list. Since these have all articles, the info is pretty redundant and not that helpful there. It would be more useful as a navigational list (what I expected to see), ordered by mother company possibly.--70.80.234.196 (talk) 12:49, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Perfectly fine list, per WP:CLN.  Lugnuts  (talk) 12:58, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:58, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep "Redundant to a category" almost never works as an argument for deletion. About the only fault that I can give to this is that one can't devote that much space to each restaurant chain.  However, in this instance, the "categories are the only way" crowd has nothing at all to be proud of-- Category:Restaurants in Canada, Category:Fast-food chains of Canada, Category: Restaurant chains in Canada, Category:Pizza chains of Canada, etc., -- what a mess! Mandsford 18:52, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rename Clearly meets WP:list and WP:CLN--Mike Cline (talk) 16:03, 4 June 2010 (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.