The main argument of those who would like to remove recipes from Wikipedia is a recipe is just a POV of a given dish. I would like to point 2 things: - A picture is always the point of view of the photographer (= he can choose what he wants to show and therefore, the feeling he wants to transmit). Does that mean we must remove all pictures from Wikipedia in the name of NPOV? I don't think so. Even if pictures are always POV, they give as information as they are useful to understand a concept (ie. Show picture of tsunami devastations is a good shortcut to explain its power). - I think there a two kind of recipes: 1) the personal way of cooking a dish 2) the minimal requirement to make a given dish. The first kind of information is, imho, non pertinent for an encyclopedia. The second is essential! A "crepe" is not a crepe because it's making with flour, milk and egg, but because those ingredients are present in a particular proportion and because they are mixed in a particular way.
I would like to make a proposal for Wikipedia:
- A dish's article can contain one recipe (the minimal requirements to make a dish what is it) - Each ingredient is express in range of proportion (to be representative of variations) - Non essential information (like flavors, decoration, etc.) is explained into the article's text (this must be a representative variation, not a personal taste). - Dish's recipe alone is a stub that must be enhanced. - If it's obvious that there is no intention to improve the stub (recipe alone), it can be proposed at VfD.
I think, the only case we can't found a consensus about proportion range to make a given dish, imho, mean that two dishs sharing the same name (for example Japanese Kuri are very far from Indian one). What do you think about my proposal?
Aoineko