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 keep (non-admin closure). Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:30, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Meat industry

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This is a content fork (WP:CFORK) of material already covered at Meat and the subarticles linked there, as well as sort of original research by (non-neutral) synthesis: it collects rather haphazardly a number of problems associated with the topic rather than first covering the factual basics of the topic such as what methods and processes the industry uses and what its history and commercial importance is. This also makes it a WP:POVFORK. In my view, this topic area should first be covered at meat and its existing subarticles, before a (more competently written and comprehensively scoped) subarticle might possibly be spun out with that material per WP:SS. Sandstein 15:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Granted, it might currently have a tendency. I started it from even more ideological, though perfectly valid remains. The meat page, however, has so far never seen even cautious attempts at describing the reality of industrial meat production. Or do you thing that mere production technicalities provide a hint at what is going on on the world market? Just for fun: go back to a previous version of "meat" and try to find mentions of "industry". Your presumed "fork" is not backed by evidence. -- Kku 16:53, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Keep. As discussed at the guideline linked by the nominator, WP:SPINOFFs are acceptable. AfD is not cleanup; while this strikes me as a reasonable spinoff title if there really isn't enough content to merit its own title then propose a merge. VQuakr (talk) 01:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The topic is obviously notable – see this UN source, for example. The nomination's proposition is that this topic should be developed within the larger topic of meat but that page is 80K and, in any case, this is not an argument to delete anything. The opposite of fork/split is merger not deletion. AFD is not cleanup. Andrew D. (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2016 (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.