Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Coast-style bagel

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 13:54, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

East Coast-style bagel[edit]

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After researching this topic, it does not quite meet WP:GNG, in terms of lacking significant coverage in multiple reliable sources to qualify for a standalone article. See the article's talk page for additional concerns that have been expressed about the topic. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:17, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:17, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:52, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete It's misleading, as most sources use "East Coast-style" to describe bagels associated with, primarily, Jewish bakeries in New York and elsewhere in the eastern United States, and the nostalgia that goes along with those, not to a particular combination of sourdough and boiling with honey employed by one bakery in Halifax. Outside of publicity and trivial local coverage for that bakery and sources that appear to be cribbing their definitions from here, there's nearly no coverage of this term in association with bagels of the sort described by the article. Fails WP:N. Largoplazo (talk) 17:03, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Dual selective merge to New York-style bagel and Montreal-style bagel by adding the following sentence or two (modified from the article page in question) to describe the nuanced differences in the Canadian East Coast-style bagel, "a variant of the New York-style bagel and Montreal-style bagel exists on the Canadian East Coast except that it is made with sourdough that uses locally sourced wild yeasts.[1] This Canadian East Coast-style bagel is not as chewy and fluffy, nor as salty as the New York-style bagel, and is less dense, doughy and sweet than a Montreal-style bagel.[2][3][4]," and then redirect East Coast-style bagel to either of the two pages (one with higher page views, potentially) or to a dab page. Doug Mehus (talk) 16:33, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per @StonyBrook:'s comment below re: the sourdough variation being written in the subhead of the Bagel article, with the caveat to recommending future editors of the Bagel article add a notation that this variation is common in Atlantic Canada (chiefly, Nova Scotia). Agree with @Largoplazo: that it is misleading/confusing. --Doug Mehus (talk) 01:03, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is some limited sourcing, but this is not a notable enough topic for a standalone article. The current sub-head in the Bagel article covers this short topic well for now. Also agree with Largoplazo that the title is misleading due to confusion with the East Coast of the U.S. StonyBrook (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2019 (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.