Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talking with your mouth full


 * 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   no consensus. How I see it is that there are 3 options: redirect, merge or keep. There is no firm consensus for any one of them; however, there is definitely no consensus to delete. (The nominator and the original PRODer don't even want deletion.) Merge discussions may take place on the talk pages. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 15:08, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Talking with your mouth full

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User:TheLongTone prodded this article for deletion, the rationale being "A dictionary definition and some trivia: difficult to see what else this could become". I requested it be turned into an AFD (I find them far superior to prodding). So here we are. I'll give my own rationale for the article's retention below. Please discuss. :) Coin945 (talk) 13:07, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:17, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect Merge to table manners. There is nothing to "talking with your mouth full" that couldn't conceivably be covered there. Chris857 (talk) 14:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I meant to vote merge, but wrote redirect Chris857 (talk) 14:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Table manners per above; difficult to find a place to merge and would possibly become WP:UNDUE. On a side note, that article needs some work as well to avoid WP:NOT violations. Ansh666 21:09, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep - PRODder has !voted merge here, so let them discuss it on the talk. No serious deletion advocates. Ansh666 18:01, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep as creator. (Addendum is in BOLD) Essentialy I think this is an extremely notable pet peeve in regard to table manner etiquette, that has a wealth of sources on the internet describing scenarios, how it is a form of bad behaviour, consequences, ways to solve the problem. The history even (e.g. when was talking with your mouth full considered socially acceptable?) I assume there is a plethora of great material on this topic in written texts. Clumsy title or not, i firmly believe this concept is a notable one. I genuinely think there is an abundance of info to make this a great article. Yes, perhaps the article title is a bit common but don't let that throw you. Perhaps there is a better term for it. I don't know.--Coin945 (talk) 22:51, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge to table manners. TheLongTone (talk) 14:03, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep per WP:SK "the nominator...fails to advance an argument for deletion". The nominator actually wants to keep the article so why are we wasting our time? Warden (talk) 15:06, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. LD implies a previous deletion of the article in a previous edit, but my attempt to find the record of that discussion led to the current debate. Maybe there was a reason for the original deletion, but the current article is surprisingly well constructed, referenced, and falls outside of the geographical scope presented in table manners. MMetro (talk) 18:04, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment The reason for deletion/ merging is that there is zip to say on the subject other than that it is generally considered to be poor manners. There really isn't anything to add, despite the wealth of poorly-written anecdtage in the article.TheLongTone (talk) 14:42, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Table manners. Not an encyclopedic topic. Carrite (talk) 18:03, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - well-sourced article. My second choice is to merge. Bearian (talk) 22:05, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Table manners.LM2000 (talk) 07:38, 7 August 2013 (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.