Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shropshire pudding


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The result was   delete. Neutralitytalk 21:17, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Shropshire pudding

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This article may well be a hoax. Even if not, the citations given do not verify the content of the article, and the only Google reference to be found for a "shropshire" pudding refers to an entirely different entity. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:24, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The website 'Foods of England' has an entry for 'Shropshire Pudding' + a reference to the book 'Food in England' by Dorothy Hartley. It is verifiable by G-books (p. 625). You can find out more at G-books. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 13:46, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment If we are going to keep the article, it will need to be completely rewritten, as the item described by the "foods of England" site is completely different than the item described in the current article. Without access to Hartley's book, there is insufficient information at the foods of England site to hang an article on.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:52, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks that you are right, I've compared the ingredients from mum's recipe with the 'Foods of England' and they are different. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 14:10, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment "Mum's recipe" seems to be a slapdash attempt by the article's author to add legitimacy to this article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:39, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * But it is quite funny attempt :) I agree with deletion, the recent version is rather a joke. Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 07:41, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:07, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete (or total rewrite, which comes to much the same thing). The article is non-encyclopedic (which we could fix), but more importantly the citations are hopeless - a quiz, a jokey one-liner in a recipe, and a link to 'Staffordshire Yeomanry Pudding' which seems not the same thing at all. As for cookery books, Shropshire Pudding isn't in my edition of Mrs Beeton, Mrs Peel, Henderson, Lady Clark of Tillypronie, Francatelli, or Raffald, I give up. I expect it does exist but frankly it's jolly obscure. The article is, probably, a hoax, and we should delete it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:24, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - complete hoax. David (talk) 18:36, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - I approached this with an open mind and an empty stomach. I exercised due diligence by searching the net, and asking at Shropshire talk, and Project Shropshire. It does not seem that it can be adequately verified, and may not even exist. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:12, 16 December 2011 (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.