Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lithuanian cuisine

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lithuanian cuisine
Pointless list of meals spelled out in Lithuanian. By definition incomplete (and there's not even a foodfoodfood on there yet). Radiant! 12:04, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC) Keep It may grow into something worthwhile -- Longhair 15:01, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. A valid topic. Also, most articles of Wikipedia can be described as "by definition incomplete". Bogdan | Talk 12:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Not true. Most articles converge asymptotically to completeness. What I meant is that this article can never feasibly be complete, because every dish could be listed here. Also if it were complete, it would be a pointless list. Wikipedia is not a Lithuanian dictionary. Radiant! 12:12, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Valid topic even if the article lacks quality at the moment. Trilobite (Talk) 14:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The redlinks are too much of an invitation to create Cookbook articles. There is a place for an article on Lithuanian cuisine, akin to the one on French cuisine. But this isn't that article.  This is List of Lithuanian recipes by the wrong name, and a potential invitation to put yet more burden on the TransWiki system. Transwiki this to WikiBooks:Cookbook:Cuisine of Lithuania, and start the encyclopaedia article again. Uncle G 15:30, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * Uncle G, you just took the words right out of my mouth. Delete or transwiki as the article stands now, but I'm hoping Capitalistroadster knows something about Lithuanian cuisine. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 15:42, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Changing to keep, hoping for further expansion. / u p p l a n d 10:57, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Comment: No vote yet. Valid topic as such, and individual dishes are also valid topics of articles, as long as they don't list everybody's grandmother's particular recipe. The Polish and Russian Wikipedias have substantial articles on the Lithuanian cuisine (while the Lithuanian Wikipedia just has a stub). Maybe somebody can translate? / u p p l a n d 16:03, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete . (see below) Concur with Uncle G. "Lithuanian cuisine" would be an encyclopedic topic, but as it stands, it is not an article on the history and peculiarities of the Lithuanian cuisinie, it's just a list of meals. Unless someone expands it now, I'd vote for deletion. By the way, should there be an article for each individual meal? I would say no. Compare, for instance, Polish_cuisine, in which only the most import meals have standalone articles. vlad_mv 20:41, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and allow for organic deletion. GRider\talk 00:25, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Changing vote to keep after Bogdan's edits. GRider\talk 16:54, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I expanded a bit, adding two paragraphs of introduction and an English description of the meals. Bogdan | Talk 10:12, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Good work, Bogdan. Now it is a cuisine stub that may be expanded. I hereby change my vote to Keep. vlad_mv 13:37, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Vlad MV. Keep Radiant! 11:19, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to the cookbook. Megan1967 08:18, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki. JamesBurns 10:37, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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