Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Etiquette of Pakistani dining

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 keep. MBisanz ^talk 08:50, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Etiquette of Pakistani dining[edit]

Delete Wikipedia is not a HOW TO guide Mayalld (talk) 08:48, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
But either WikiBooks or WikiSource is. transwiki. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:28, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete? Per A5 then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstanton (talk • contribs) 19:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Encyclopedic subject, that the tone of the article requires editing is the only real problem with this article. Problems that can be fixed via editing should be fixed, rather than the article deleted, per WP:DELETION. For an example of how it could be once it has seen appropriate editor attention, see Etiquette of Indian dining. JulesH (talk) 21:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but wikify. The execution is unencyclopedic, but the topic is not. Estemi (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per JulesH

Comment: upon further research, I found table manners#Pakistani table manners, which is where the text for this article was copied from. I still say keep, though, on the model of table manners#Indian table manners and Etiquette of Indian dining. Jazz Man 18:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete how-to guide. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Take a look at the article now that I have rewritten it. Estemi and JulesH are right. This was never a how-to issue, other than perhaps the issue of editors not knowing 'how-to' rewrite an article. Anarchangel (talk) 01:47, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Usually how-to rewrite an article involves the use of verifiable reliable sources of which this article is devoid. There is no indication that this etiquette article is even true or reflective of norms - like describing all the fluffery of "High Tea" at Harrods or Agatha Christie's well-spun words about the English breakfast and extrapolating them as the Etiquette of English dining. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I concede your point that I added no citations, that the article is unfinished, and that therefore it is not in itself an example of how to rewrite an article.

You have not addressed my main point. Your reason for deletion, and the reason of others here, was that the article was a how-to article. I have shown that it was not irretrievably so, and no longer is. Anarchangel (talk) 02:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Encyclopaedic topic, needs refs though and some rewording. Pahari Sahib 11:14, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.