I'm not sure I agree with the reasoning on NPOV and so on, but I agree with the ends. Recipes, down to degrees for baking, do not belong in an encyclopedia. That said, articles on food should be encouraged. It needn't be discouraging for new users to submit a recipe, only to have it moved--a note on a talk page, inviting an_article_on that food, could be polite. At any rate, it's good to have this discussion, since I've seen many more recipes on VfD recently than there used to be.
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Dan Miller wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with the reasoning on NPOV and so on, but I agree with the ends. Recipes, down to degrees for baking, do not belong in an encyclopedia. That said, articles on food should be encouraged. It needn't be discouraging for new users to submit a recipe, only to have it moved--a note on a talk page, inviting an_article_on that food, could be polite. At any rate, it's good to have this discussion, since I've seen many more recipes on VfD recently than there used to be.
That I'll agree with. The vast majority of recipes don't need to be deleted--they need to be refactored as encyclopedia articles. At the very least it should be possible to replace a recipe for [[Flan]] with a stub saying "'''Flan''' is a [[dessert]] made from ..., commonly eaten in [list of countries]...". Of course, perhaps the recipe should also be moved to WikiBooks, because there is some interest in eventually producing an actual cookbook. But in either case it's rarely necessary to actually delete the article completely (in some cases moving it from, say, [[How to cook a turkey]] to [[turkey (food)]] might be necessary, but that doesn't need VfD either).
-Mark