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Anthere wrote:
I discovered today that recipes are now legally deleted from the english wikipedia where they are not welcome any more.
Still, I had the memory there was no clear agreement on doing so, and for months, there was a sort of balance with removing all those of minor dishes, while keeping those from typical ones.
Hello,
I guess things tend to change. Things that were acceptable some months ago are no more accepted by the community.
When I tried to make a policy on the topic, clearly, there was no agreement. Neither to keep, neither to delete. Mostly two factions.
Today, I realised all had been deleted. I restored one and was immediately reverted by Gentgeen (of course, he is the one who deleted them) and he pointed to me a policy on "what Wikipedia is not".
Maybe you should add entries in a "Request to undelete" page instead of abusing your sysop rights against the community choice (aka restauring a page that got deleted with the approval of the community).
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- why is it so that rules are written in the big book (what wikipedia is
not) which makes reference, while these rules are not widely agreed on the project ? If not agreed but by a couple of bold people, should they be used to revert the others ?
For me, if the community decide that receipe should be deleted, it's no more about "a couple of bold people", but the community as a whole.
I realised the recipes were not welcome any more at all today, because a couple of french people wish to delete them as well on the french wikipedia. And one of their arguments is that the english wikipedia decided to delete them (and so, they must be right !).
I removed the rule as is now, and asked the editor who initially added it to show me where this was supported initially.
I personally believe that receipes as they are should go in wikibooks and have nothing to do with an encyclopedia. Having an history, description, use of a dish is another matter and can fit well in the encyclopedia. The receipe does not.
cheers,
- -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ Servers in trouble ? noc (at) wikimedia (dot) org