Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marga Betinjan


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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Marga Betinjan

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Article, completely unsourced for 4.5 years, about an eggplant and rice dish attached to Mediterranean culture — but the Mediterranean is an incredibly large region populated by many diverse cultures with very different cuisines (Spain? Italy? Lebanon? Greece? Turkey? Algeria? Malta?). So one would have to be a lot more specific than that, because there's just no way that the entire region has the same dish or calls it by the same name. An anonymous IP has raised concerns on the talk page that it may be a hoax, another IP has made edits to the article in the past with claims of inaccuracy in their edit summary (there were formerly some eyebrow-raising claims in here about how it had to be eaten with fancy gold or silver cutlery for some unspecified reason, and how it was served only to royalty and not the hoi polloi), and indeed on a Google search I can't actually find any reliably sourced content about it — rather, it seems to be attested only in the kind of second or third rate sources that could potentially have mirrored their information about it from us rather than vice versa. So it's not clearcut enough to qualify for G3 as a hoax, but there's enough question about it that it needs wider attention. I grant that this might also be a regional name variant for a dish more widely known by another name — Tepsi Baytinijan, maybe? — but if that's the case, then it should be a redirect to another article rather than a standalone topic. And if it can't be properly verified as a real thing, then it should be deleted. Bearcat (talk) 18:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete, I too have been unable to find reliable sources for this dish. Huon (talk) 21:26, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources found. I expected to find something, but was surprised by the paucity of information. This is not a notable subject and is quite likely something made up. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 22:48, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete This sounds like musakka to me, but in Arabic that's called musakkat betinjan or msakaet bathinjan, I think. (The mention of rice also recalls eggplant maqluba (maklubit betinjan).) But at the end of the day we have no idea what marga is or what language it's from. We have no entry at marga (disambiguation) or marga that suggests this word is somehow related to food. There is a tomato-based stew from North Africa called marqa (cf. chakhchoukha), but I can't find any evidence of an eggplant version. It's a shame this article wasn't created by an IP, because then we could at least figure out what country they were from. Ibadibam (talk) 20:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


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