Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sink Salad


 * 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. There is clear consensus to delete. Girth Summit  (blether) 12:16, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Sink Salad

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Phenomenon that has no claim to notability. Does not satisfy WP:GNG. — Goszei (talk) 22:55, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete Delete per nom. Article has no references nor categories, and is a stub. GinawaSaHapon (talk) 23:57, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * That is not one of the Project:Criteria for speedy deletion. Uncle G (talk) 23:58, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my bad. GinawaSaHapon (talk) 00:02, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I did wonder whether I should have pointed out also that Project:deletion policy does not support deleting stubs simply because they are uncategorized. Please find a policy-based rationale that the closing administrator can hang xyr hat from.  Uncle G (talk) 00:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * As a compromise solution, I can categorize the article and gradually expand it with more sources. Egyptian jew (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:27, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * More sources? It currently has none. If you can find sources to satisfy WP:GNG, that's precisely what's needed here, and what's lacking. Cats etc. are nice-to-haves, once (if) notability has been established. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:26, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Made me chuckle, so thanks to the creator for that. Love the optimistic "The phrase has yet to appear in the OED" at the end; also the initial caps in the title: it's not just sink salad, but Sink Salad! :) On a more serious note, delete as non-notable neologism, possibly joke/hoax. (BTW, there is something called 'kitchen sink salad', which this might be a riff of, and which also makes finding any sources - assuming any exist, which I doubt - tricky.) --DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:52, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can't find any significant coverage of this phenomenon to demonstrate that it warrants an article on Wikipedia. Seems to border on being WP:ONEDAY Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom, obvious fail of WP:GNG CommanderWaterford (talk) 12:07, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep: I have added categories and am working on the references. Note that there is no Wikipedia page for gunt even though a Google images search pulls up 3.7 million results. I would point out that by contrast, the Sink Salad article is at least acceptable to a family audience. It is somewhat out of touch with the times to insist on absolutely zero articles that deal with informal subject matter that is too crude for Harvard academics and college-educated journalists to engage with. Some of these issues are very real concepts for billions of working people, many of whom may not necessarily come from the same demographic as your average editor who is working on the Wikipedia project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Egyptian jew (talk • contribs) 14:06, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * So you are saying that the decision from Articles for deletion/Gunt applies here, because this is an unsourced folk-written slang dictionary entry, too. Uncle G (talk) 06:40, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have restored the WP:A11 tag which was removed inappropriately Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - Generally accepted concept in certain cultures and communities. Some even have a single word for it. — Mr Bulmer (talk)
 * Please can you share some reliable sources to back this up? Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:47, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per DoubleGrazing. EpicPupper 21:36, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - I've heard this term used abundantly. On a related note, "Kitchen Sink Salad" is used also as an actual recipe. A quick google shows a plethora of yummy recipes you can try out - albeit that the names derives from the expression "everything but the kitchen sink" in reference to the vast range of salad contents, rather than the horrible gunk you get in your sink drain! Evaline Nakano (talk) 22:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems like something made up one day. Article has no references whatsoever. J I P  &#124; Talk 18:30, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per DoubleGrazing. Amusing: rather. Hoax: absolutely. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 21:50, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2021 May 3.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 02:51, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Search results get swamped with all kinds of recipes for "kitchen sink salads" (i.e. All The Ingredients salads), but even after I went to some effort to exclude everything, one by one, that could throw up false positives (it's an interesting search term :p) there are only the faintest indications of use - a few photo captions, basically. This is not nearly enough of a thing for an article. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:50, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete No reliable sources that show notability. PianoDan (talk) 15:55, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2021 May 8.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 22:45, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete No reliable WP:SOURCES to demonstrate that article meets WP:GNG. Johnnie Bob (talk) 23:39, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as a neologism with no independent sources seemingly discussing the usage of the phrase. ƒirefly  ( t · c ) 10:00, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:MADEUP. A search turned up plenty of mentions of "Kitchen Sink Salad" (as in "Contains everything but the..."), but precisely one mention of "Sink salad" in the article's sense - and that was in distinctly non-WP:RS Urban Dictionary. Narky Blert (talk) 10:13, 9 May 2021 (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.