Rick wrote:
[[User:Nunh-huh]] insists on including three pizza places and a restaurant on the New Haven page. I've been trying to delete them but he won't let me. When I suggested that if he's going to list them he should add several others, he said that I needed to add them if I thought they should be included. Isn't it POV to list only a very few of the hundreds of stores in a city's list? Isn't this free advertising?
I'd say that it depends on the entire context. It can certainly be valid to mention some restaurants or establishments of any type in an article, if they are actually of some cultural importance in that city.
It seems that on the last revision, Nunh-huh is agreeing to leave out the pizza joints, but wants to leave in the refernece to Louis' Lunch. If the description is true _and verifiable_, then it should stay, because a restaurant that claims to have invented the hamburger and which has "queues ten deep at lunchtime" does sound like a useful bit of local color/culture for the article.
http://www.louislunch.com/ has several links to newspaper articles and the Library of Congress which appear to confirm the cultural importance of this place.
By and large, we can do away with disputes of this type by simply citing confirmability. In this case, the info about Louis' Lunch appears to meet that test. For the others, I didn't check.
--Jimbo