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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 14:53, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I am undecided as to whether this is a hoax or if it is done in good faith. But as far as I can understand, there is no such thing as a dish called "el makarna". "Makarna" is a Turkish name for pasta or macaroni, more specificly a Turkish type of pasta. It is also used as a generic name for a number of pasta dishes, like "fırında makarna" (in the oven), "salçalı makarna" (with sauce), "etli makarna" (with meat), "yogurtlu makarna" (with yoghurt) etc. But "el makarna" is something different. "El" in Turkish means hand, and a Google search for "el makarna" -wikipedia gives less than 100 hits, most of them concerned with different kind of pasta machines or descriptions of how to make pasta by hand. Searching for recipes gives 4 hits, none of them seems relevant. Searching with "tarifi" (Turkish for recipe) gives 25 hits. Some of these are recipes for making pasta by hand, not one of them seems to match the description given in the article.

Some words about the contents. As for the comparison ("very similar") with spaghetti alla carbonara, I do not see it. No eggs, no bacon, no black pepper. Then, the external links: The first one is about "fırında makarna" (pasta in the oven), which is quite different from the description. No "el" mentioned in the text, "hand" is mentioned about preparing meatballs. No relevance. The second link is actually about "el makarna" (hand made pasta), but has no similarity with the description in the article. No cheese or olive oil, just flour, egg, water and salt, and no way made in 12 minutes. Finally, the picture that was placed in the article (later removed as copyvio) was a picture of "cevikli makarna" (pasta with walnuts) or "cevikli erişte" (walnut noodles), No similarity to description.

Confusing, contradicory and without substance. T*U (talk) 15:33, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cyprus-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Note also that the former article "Makarna Firinda" is now a redirect to Pastitsio. I also find no sources for "El Makarna," only recipes for various iterations of makarna. Also note, for what it is worth, that the article was created by User:Mrclever2248, blocked as a sock of User:Shingling334. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:31, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -- may not exist. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete – per nom. Qed237 (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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