Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of food origins

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. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of food origins[edit]

Unreferenced, Original research, indiscriminate/unmaintainable list. — ERcheck (talk) 01:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, per nom. Carl.bunderson (talk) 02:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment If someone honestly thinks they can re-make this in the mold of List of culinary fruits, I'd go for keeping it. Carl.bunderson (talk) 22:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Kind of a random list. There are some mistakes as well, although I am sure its creator meant well. Borock (talk) 02:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A perfectly reasonable encyclopedia entry. Needs to be referenced. ChildofMidnight (talk) 07:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - This is not so much a list of food, but a list of plants (which just happen to be edible one way or another). And the origin of plants is more appropriately covered elsewhere. --Latebird (talk) 19:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keepish commenty suggestion thing this is definitely useful, encyclopedic material (althouth not something I would expect to find in a classic paper encyclopedia IMHO). This'd be great if it was expanded a bit, with the various foods linked to their respective articles (or better - sections expanding upon the information in the list) and with at least short blurbs as to the specifics (i. e. if something wasn't used as food since ancient times, any information on when the edibility of a particular plant or creature was determined). Just an idea. --Ouro (blah blah) 21:05, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Consider also existence of New World Crops, Old World foods, Food heritage. All of the above can be safely merged into Origin of edible plants, just through out the nonsense about strawberries. NVO (talk) 22:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where is Origin of edible plants? Badagnani (talk) 07:42, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Where is Origin of edible plants? Badagnani (talk) 23:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and source. Food plants and animals aren't infinite. I will do a few with sources. A name change may be in order. Peek at List of culinary fruits to see how fruits are handled. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 06:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Seems like an excellent article; needs sourcing for all plants listed and improvement. We can work together to do that. Badagnani (talk) 07:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - the list is a keeper. It shows what foods are indigenous to what regions of the world, which is encyclopedic. It can be sourced and the list can be kept to the major food stuffs. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 07:55, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete just a sketch probably not worth the expanding. A real article would be another matter. DGG (talk) 01:21, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep - User:NVO's response to my above question was not forthcoming, and, contrary to his/her comment there is nothing to merge to, this article should be kept as an eminently notable article with the potential for significant growth and value to our project. Badagnani (talk) 23:05, 7 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.