Recipies "lacking a home" is not a problem here, plenty of recipies exist in Wikibooks and many of those deleted on en.wikipedia are actually /moved/ to Wikibooks.
Mark
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:27:51 -0500, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
Salut Anthere, I regret to hear that the recipies have been deleted. Obviously someone put the effort in collecting the information and posting it.
There are other places on Wikimedia's sister projects where the information would be welcome. For example, wiktionary, where if I were to visit 'gazpacho' I would hope there'd be a simple recipe I could find, because it describes the dish by giving its way of making the soup. Also Wikibooks would be a great resource, a Wikirecipe Book would be an excellent solution. Or Wikisource where a text or collection of texts could be posted on step-by-step recipies for dishes.
But all these solutions aside, the first step would be to talk this out before anyone gets delete-finger happy. Watching out for abuse and misuse is entirely understandable, but deleting recipies without discussion and a call for solutions seems contrary to wikietiquette. At least in my point of view.
Let the recipies find a home!
Since, Jay B.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com 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.
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".
On this page, it is written that recipes should not be kept in Wikipedia. So, now, Gentgeen has a argument to revert me, and possibly even the right to block me if I restore a recipe.
My question :
- 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 ?
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.
Ant
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