[Wikipedia-l] recipes

[ilooy]

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 at 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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