Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of acquired tastes


 * 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 Delete. Carlossuarez46 00:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

List of acquired tastes

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Is this a suitable subject for an article? How can one say what is or is not an acquired taste? I'm not sure how strongly I'd argue for deletion here, but I'm not sure this can be an effective list, as the scope is potentially vast. FrozenPurpleCube 05:56, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * BTW, if somebody else wants to look through Category:Lists of foods you might find other articles to be concerned about. FrozenPurpleCube 05:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Literally anything has the potential to be an acquired taste for someone, somewhere. As it stands, there is no well defined inclusion criteria, and I doubt there could ever be an objective criteria for inclusion. Calgary 06:05, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as OR and POV. Pretty much everything listed is an acquired taste outside places where they are made, but common or even staple foods elsewhere. Try telling anybody from the Mediterranean region that olives are an acquired taste! Dbromage  [Talk]  06:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Likewise, try telling anyone from New York that coffee is an acquired taste. Indeed, the list currently expands to cover just about all culinary areas that you could imagine. I'm sure even cheese could be considered an acquired taste to some. Calgary 06:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * And now I look back to see that cheese is actually on the list. See what I mean? Calgary 06:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Being Australian, I'll make the same claim about Vegemite. Dbromage  [Talk]  06:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete way too loose of an inclusion criteria + OR involved in maintaining this list Corpx 07:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletions.   —  Dbromage  [Talk]  07:34, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   —  Dbromage  [Talk]  07:34, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think this could ever be more than OR. Seth Bresnett • (talk) 10:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per everyone else, obviously OR, unverifiable, POV etc.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 11:47, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Pile on delete this is possibly the stupidest piece of OR I've yet seen —  iride scent   (talk to me!)  12:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The original contributor should be kicked from Wikipedia for wasting our time with bullshit like this. --Agamemnon2 12:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment In the original creator's defense, the original version was a straightforward dicdef; people then spent the next 18 months adding "see also"s until it sprawled into this mess —  iride scent   (talk to me!)  12:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * delete About as clear as you can get '' •C H ILL DO UBT•     12:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Maxamegalon2000 13:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete since literally everything can qualify, plus it's entirely subjective, original research, and so on. Koweja 13:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Another pile-on delete OR they? -- Kicking222 16:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Anyone can say that they have a "special taste" for something, making this list difficult to maintain and biased on one's point-of-view. TheInfinityZero 16:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Oh for crying out loud.  Burntsauce 18:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Spit it out Holy crap ... this article has been around since 2006???? How'd it last this long?  This is listcruft gone mad.  Indiscriminate as I don't know what, and will never be complete.Blueboy96 20:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * SNOWBALL! SNOOOOOWBAAAALL!!! Eleland 20:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Nah, there's no need to Snowball, let it hang around so the deletions can pile on. FrozenPurpleCube 15:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete: No possibility of developing unambigous NPOV criteria for inclusion of items in the list as required by lists. --Coppertwig 20:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the above. Please! --Malcolmxl5 10:52, 26 August 2007 (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.