Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sylvain Claudius Goy

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The result was merge‎ to Croissant#Origin and history. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:26, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Sylvain Claudius Goy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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A very thinly-sourced biography of a chef who may or may not have invented, or documented, the modern croissant. The main source given for the claim is that a bookshop website in North Carolina describes his 1915 recipe book (which they are selling for $1500) as containing the first published croissant recipe. Other sources consider the modern croissant to date from 1906.

References to Goy's recipe book do appear in the prose of a few modern cookbooks, but without much detail about the man, or giving much weight to the idea that he definitely invented the modern croissant.

Goy may merit a mention in context in the croissant article, but it doesn't look like he meets the known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique of WP:AUTHOR, or the depth of coverage of WP:BASIC. Belbury (talk) 15:10, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Food and drink. Belbury (talk) 15:10, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
• Merge/redirect to Croissant#Origin_and_history per nom. Reywas92^Talk 16:40, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:58, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
• Merge to Croissant#Origin_and_history. Not even getting into the notability question and other facts noted by nom that could very well be true. The article is so short and intertwined with croissant history that, regardless of any other data, merge would be the right choice. gidonb (talk) 20:12, 6 October 2023 (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.