Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emergency rations

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The result was Nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure) Rusf10 (talk) 15:40, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Emergency rations[edit]

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Believe this should either be deleted to make way for a move of Emergency Rations (EP) and add a hatnote to link to rationing there or turn this into a disambiguation. Either way I think the current article should be deleted, but not sure what the best replacement would be. Rusf10 (talk) 20:45, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 20:45, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - this is plainly the primary topic, EP or no, and it's nothing to do with rationing, all to do with emergencies. Solution: leave the article where it is. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:11, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think that the current article should be expanded, and it clearly can be. Uncle G (talk) 02:07, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as-is Nobody searching for this term is looking for a 2002 concept album. Can be expanded with the help of the Rationing article, or can be merged there. Nate • (chatter) 02:34, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and expand. BD2412 T 03:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article is about the kinds of foods kept in small-scale (per house, car, boat, etc) for emergency purposes. Rationing is about limiting available quantities of things during times of questionable supply. I hate to pull the "there's tons of references but someone else can find them" card, but it's a very fear-mongering, anxiety-inducing industry that I'd like to avoid if at all possible. You know... "Preppers". Estheim (talk) 15:57, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, obviously. I find it very difficult to believe that any more than a minuscule percentage of people looking for this title would be looking for an EP rather than the topic of this article. And the subject is nothing to do with rationing whatsoever. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as no real argument is presented for why this article is bad (deleting an article to make way for a redirect -- what). This is quite obviously a notable concept, with loads of sources everywhere. jp×g 04:58, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A case could perhaps be made for Emergency Rations (capital R) to redirect to the EP instead of this, be the title for the article about the EP, or be a disambiguation page, but none of those options require this article to be deleted. I think the current situation with hatnotes is fine (see also WP:ONEOTHER). Anyway, I added a couple of sources to the article. TompaDompa (talk) 10:51, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the article definitely passes notability guidelines, I don't quite understand the rationale for deletion - none of the named reasons justify it. There's no criteria met for deletion per WP:DEL-REASON. Less Unless (talk) 14:26, 23 April 2021 (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.