Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zen and the Art of Cooking Beer-Can Chicken


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 02:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Zen and the Art of Cooking Beer-Can Chicken
Non-notable cookbook, whose only claim to fame is it borrowed its title from a notable book. Previously prodded and deprodded hence here. Salix alba (talk) 21:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Book is available on Amazon but I suspect this is an attempt by the author for free advertising.  [[Image:Monkeyman.png]]Monkeyman 21:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * comment: this may interest the primary editor that there is a cook book on wikibooks!!! --CyclePat 21:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep ---J.Smith 22:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable, self-promotional advertising. -- Krash (Talk) 00:15, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another newly published cookbook. --Calton | Talk 00:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete NN cookbook Maustrauser 05:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 17:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * comment:Is there no other place such contributions may be applied or utilized? (ie.: WikISNB (for books with ISBN's that are already published? Not only that but that would be an excellent to search for books, reference these book with wikipedia, etc..._))--CyclePat 00:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Try looking at Wikicities. In wikipedia notability is an important condition, if we were not to limit the inclusion of articles the size of the project would grow beyond what we would be able to host and maintain, for instance every group of kids who decided to form a band, and there are many millions of books. The various projects in wikicities do not all have such notability requirements. There are many other sites on the internet which will be more inclusive of cookbooks than wikipedia. --Salix alba (talk) 11:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Perhaps there should be a guideline for cookbooks? I have a great many cookbooks in my collection (I suspect it would be considered mid-sized) and altogether very few of them are notable enough for Wikipedia. Of those that I would say are, they are thunderously influential books created by cookbook authors who are not only influential but truly define the fields they work in (Escoffier, Julia Child, Irma Rombauer), or books of great historical interest (Art of Cookery). Others are books by people who in and of themselves are notable (Alton Brown, Craig Claiborne) but have not produced works that are notable in and of themselves. I can't see having in Wikipedia, not only a book about a semi-obscure regional American dish, but not even the best-known book on the subject. Haikupoet 04:14, 22 February 2006 (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.