On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:57:33 +1100, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
I like the Spanish solution a whole lot. Andre, Anthere, what do you think?
I 100% agree with that solution. A recipe as an EXAMPLE in a complete article about a dish is quite appropriate for an encyclopedia. Well-known dishes are suitable subjects for an encyclopedia. A recipe for a dish I invented last Saturday is not a suitable subject for an encyclopedia.
Arguments about recipes being necessarily POV do not, in my opinion, disqualify them from being in an encyclopedia. Our NPOV policy does not mean we have to remove all non-neutral statements, but rather that we have to be explicit about the source of them.
I don't think a recipe by itself is a sufficient encyclopedia article. If a surrounding article cannot be written about a recipe, it's probably a good indicator that the subject isn't important enough to document here ...
-Matt (User:Morven)