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The result was no consensus. Later comments found some relevant mentions in outside sources, indicating that this cuisine is "a thing."
Joyous! |
Talk14:51, 8 November 2022 (UTC)reply
WP:SYNTH and
WP:OR. None of the sources in this article point towards a distinct Sylheti cusine; rather they talk about certain dishes which originate from the Sylhet district or happen to be popularly eaten in Sylhet. There is no source which mentions Sylheti cuisine to be notable in its own right. The article is also poorly written, and mentions unrelated content such as pop culture and information about nutrition. This article should be deleted.
UserNumber (
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20:33, 31 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. I'm less sure about this one. The article needs substantial rewriting to be less promotional, but that's a cleanup matter rather than an AFD one. The Guardian article suggests a book discusses it even if it is talking about cooks from Sylhet rather than Sylheti cuisine necessarily (just as there's no guarantee that every Italian cooks Italian food, not all Sylheti cooks cook Sylheti food, right?). However,
"The Statesman" directly says "The reason being a reasonable percentage of the restaurants in Brick Lane are run by Bangladeshis from Sylhet, whose spoken words and culinary preferences differ from the rest of the Bangladeshis." If true, that means that Sylheti cuisine really is different from Bangladeshi cuisine in general. And while greatcurryrecipes.com doesn't appear to be a super-high quality site, it is discussing a dish called "Sylheti beef", which is a promising sign that this really is a cuisine type. Haven't exhaustively checked all the references, but it looks like this article might be salvageable.
SnowFire (
talk)
21:05, 31 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I am in complete agreement with
SnowFire... There are a lot of references online, although RS are, at least on the surface, scant.
Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food is, however, a nice, neat reference (
this one is a blog and so isn't, which is a shame) and there's enough bouncing around out there, including websites for 'Sylheti Bangladeshi' restaurants in the UK to convince me that this is a thing. However, the article itself is a mess of unsourced OR - but then, altogether now, AfD isn't cleanup. Best
Alexandermcnabb (
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04:02, 1 November 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not going to get deep into it, because it's sort of irrelevant and NOT RS, but
here's a review of an 'authentic Sylheti restaurant' in London - one of a number in Brick Lane - selling easily identifiable and uniquely Sylheti dishes. This, BTW,
IS an RS outlet talking Sylheti food. I think, in short, we have 'a thing' and it is a notable thing, at that. Best
Alexandermcnabb (
talk)
14:58, 1 November 2022 (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
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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. Later comments found some relevant mentions in outside sources, indicating that this cuisine is "a thing."
Joyous! |
Talk14:51, 8 November 2022 (UTC)reply
WP:SYNTH and
WP:OR. None of the sources in this article point towards a distinct Sylheti cusine; rather they talk about certain dishes which originate from the Sylhet district or happen to be popularly eaten in Sylhet. There is no source which mentions Sylheti cuisine to be notable in its own right. The article is also poorly written, and mentions unrelated content such as pop culture and information about nutrition. This article should be deleted.
UserNumber (
talk)
20:33, 31 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. I'm less sure about this one. The article needs substantial rewriting to be less promotional, but that's a cleanup matter rather than an AFD one. The Guardian article suggests a book discusses it even if it is talking about cooks from Sylhet rather than Sylheti cuisine necessarily (just as there's no guarantee that every Italian cooks Italian food, not all Sylheti cooks cook Sylheti food, right?). However,
"The Statesman" directly says "The reason being a reasonable percentage of the restaurants in Brick Lane are run by Bangladeshis from Sylhet, whose spoken words and culinary preferences differ from the rest of the Bangladeshis." If true, that means that Sylheti cuisine really is different from Bangladeshi cuisine in general. And while greatcurryrecipes.com doesn't appear to be a super-high quality site, it is discussing a dish called "Sylheti beef", which is a promising sign that this really is a cuisine type. Haven't exhaustively checked all the references, but it looks like this article might be salvageable.
SnowFire (
talk)
21:05, 31 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I am in complete agreement with
SnowFire... There are a lot of references online, although RS are, at least on the surface, scant.
Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food is, however, a nice, neat reference (
this one is a blog and so isn't, which is a shame) and there's enough bouncing around out there, including websites for 'Sylheti Bangladeshi' restaurants in the UK to convince me that this is a thing. However, the article itself is a mess of unsourced OR - but then, altogether now, AfD isn't cleanup. Best
Alexandermcnabb (
talk)
04:02, 1 November 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not going to get deep into it, because it's sort of irrelevant and NOT RS, but
here's a review of an 'authentic Sylheti restaurant' in London - one of a number in Brick Lane - selling easily identifiable and uniquely Sylheti dishes. This, BTW,
IS an RS outlet talking Sylheti food. I think, in short, we have 'a thing' and it is a notable thing, at that. Best
Alexandermcnabb (
talk)
14:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)reply
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