Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pok Pok


 * 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   speedy keep. per WP:SK. Nomination withdrawn with no outstanding delete votes. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  02:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Pok Pok

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Blatant WP:PROMO. Came up on RfD as an alternative in a search. Patently not WP:WORLDWIDE. Si Trew (talk) 23:05, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry I may have listed this twice – Twinkle let me down at the last moment. So if you have two, please combine them: if I start fiddling it will only make it worse. Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 23:08, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  23:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep The New Yorker, New York Times and Oregonian sources in the article look reliable enough, and besides that I found some other coverage in reliable sources:    This seems to be enough to meet WP:CORP quite easily.  Jinkinson   talk to me  23:46, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep per sources found above. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  00:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It might need some work to expand it to the present situation where there are now a couple of "Pok Pok" restaurants in the US. As Thai restaurants go, this one is fairly notable. The owner and chef of Pok Pok, Andy Ricker, has won the 2011 James Beard Foundation Best Chef for NW United States with it. I do a lot of work on Thai cuisine articles here on WP and I wrote the article on this notable chef. Here are some news articles: LA-Times story on upcoming LA Pok Pok, World famous in Oregon ;-), reliable food mag, Vice magazine interview, named a "Game changer" by the NY Times, Bon Appetit magazine regularly names Pok Pok, Bon Appetit names Pok Pok number 8 in list of 20 most important restaurants of US 2013, Village voice, another Villagevoice interview. It's not often that a (chain of) restaurants gets this much exposure. It's also difficult to view Pok Pok separately from chef Andy Ricker. User:Conifer, who wrote the Pok Pok article, is someone from Oregon I saw, and probably proud that a Portland restaurant and chef became so famous. I think it might actually be a good idea to change the Pok Pok article into a redirect to the Andy Ricker article and include some additional refs there? - Takeaway (talk) 00:14, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think a redirect is necessary. Just a bit of work on the article itself. It clearly meets notability standards. Another Believer  ( Talk ) 01:53, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:10, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:10, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Hard to see how this is promotional. Many reliable sources have covered this restaurant. The New York Times has reviewed it twice, and Pete Wells even gave it two stars.. Pburka (talk) 01:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Disclaimer: I created the article by moving content to the main space, but perhaps I should have expanded the article a bit more. Still, the article could easily be expanded from plenty of sources. Consider it a work in progress…. Another Believer  ( Talk ) 01:50, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Withdraw my nomination, if I may, and save us all the bother? It looked to me like a single-user account creating a single article (i.e advertising their own wares): patently it isn't with these contribs. But it did seem that way; the addition of the restaurant reviews by the sole contributor to the article tended to smell a bit fishy to me. I don't mind being wrong and that others disagree, I am fine with. Thanks for your attention. But I was not sure restaurant reviews, wherever published, really count as RS, unless RS is short for resumé: it depends who pays the bill. Si Trew (talk) 02:06, 18 September 2014 (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.