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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:10, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soft salad

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This article is about a non-notable snack product. Earlier PROD was contested by the author, saying that there is "a precedent of a large collection of snack food articles on Wikipedia", which is an WP:OTHERSTUFF argument, and this is in no way comparable to well-known Japanese snack brands such as Pocky or Umaibō, which clearly deserve self-standing articles. --DAJF (talk) 01:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —DAJF (talk) 02:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Actually, why Pocky and Umaibō are more deserving or well known than Soft salad is not immediately obvious to me. I don't think I've tried Umaibō before (I've seen it before), but I've had soft salad and pocky in the past, anecdotally speaking. I haven't reviewed many snack food AFDs, truthfully. --Bxj (talk) 11:33, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete. There is simply no evidence provided that this product is notable, even in Japan. Figureofnine (talk) 15:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete First article I've ever seen where the source was "Manufacturer's customer support phone conversation". Might be worth a mention in senbei. Mandsford 15:55, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no real coverage [1]. LibStar (talk) 12:06, 9 October 2010 (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.