I wrote a little quick proposal here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recipes/Proposal
Please comment there.
I also announced it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28policy%29#transwiki
There has been enough discussion over the months, and enough deletion. I hope we can fix a couple of things at least. This is not perfect for everyone, but I hope we can agree on this path.
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Ray Saintonge a écrit:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
But recipes, well, there's an awful lot of them. And I can just imagine the NPOV fights on them. (Chile with or without beans? Chocolate chip cookies with nuts? White or dark meat chicken? Does a dash of cumin improve the dish?) And they're not something that most people would think to go to an encyclopedia about.
This argument is pure speculation. Can you give examples of where it in fact has happened? Any recipe can easily accomodate notes about hoe it can be varied.
Not every good thing should go into the Wikipedia. If it tries to do everything, it only serves to obsure the things it genuinely does well with. The fact that wikibooks is not as successful as the English encyclopedia does not negate it. It means that more work needs to be done. Should we kill the foreign language encyclopedias for their failure to do as well as the English one too, and just have all the foreign language articles in one main encyclopedia?
Wikipedia is better known because it's easier to see an elephant than a mouse. Nobody is arguing in favour of doing everything, so that's another irrelevant argument.
Yes, our recipe coverage on wikibooks is not great. Perhaps if the people fighting over whether we should move them to the encyclopedia were to go and add some recipes, though, it would do better.
The fight is not over whether recipes should be moved TO the encyclopedia, but whether they should be moved FROM it. In the event that the move was made it also was about whether a redirect should be retained. Ec