Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steak sauce

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 of the debate was KEEP. -Doc (?) 23:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Steak sauce

Do we honestly need an article about steak sauce? I am sure the Heinz 57 or A1 is already here, thus, all info already covered here on the Wiki. Molotov (talk)
16:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Keep. WP has Custard, Ketchup, Salad dressing, Barbecue sauce and so on, all of which are generic sauces (unlike the two you mention, or the British HP sauce) so why not? It's the sort of term a user would search for and contains more than a simple dab page already (though IMV it's really a stub). Tonywalton  | Talk 17:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Tonywalton - but Molotov, what happened to the spinning car?  BD2412 ^talk 17:52, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, all food is notable for a truly great encyclopædia.

Grue is the name of a high protein oatmeal-based concoction used in Arkansan prisons for punishment rations- edible and nourishing, but revolting.  Grue  17:56, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep with a minor cleanup as notable sauce in wide use. Capitalistroadster 18:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. There were already 48 articles in Category:Sauces. This is number 49. Ground Zero | t 19:56, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per all y'all. Really, in most cases, I find a generic name for a type of product far more significant than the names of particular brands of said product (ie. "home computer" is a far more important topic than "Dell home computer"). The article definitely needs work, but the topic is easily notable enough. -- Captain Disdain 20:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious Keep. Do not assume everyone in the world knows what "steak sauce" is just because it is common in North America and the UK. There are places in the world where it is virtually unknown, even though steak is common. This is an encyclopedia, after all. (And as I once told the waiter when he gave me a dirty look at The Plaza in NYC, "I've asked for A1 steak sauce in classier joints than this.")--Nicodemus75 21:28, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

In my experience it's pretty much unknown as "steak sauce" in the UK, in fact. US "steak sauce" is pretty much exactly what we Brits call "brown sauce" (it being sauce and, er, brown...). I feel a redirect from [[Brown sauce]] coming on, except that's already a redirect to HP sauce. Tonywalton  | Talk

That is a bad redirect because HP is not the only brown sauce in the UK. I have been served Lea & Perrins brown sauce (not the Worcestershire sauce) with steaks at some pubs.--Nicodemus75 01:41, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, and when it's not daft o'clock in the morning I'll put together a Brown Sauce article. Too many other things to do right now. Tonywalton  | Talk 22:26, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Notable food --JAranda | watz sup 01:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Well, I don't know if I'd qualify it as a food. Personally, I prefer spices myself - but this is obviously a notable food....item! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 01:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keepper all of the above. As long as it's an encyuclopedic treatise of the subject and not a recipe, there's no reason to delete it. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please or is this nomination supposed to be a joke because it does not make sense at all Yuckfoo 17:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)`

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.