[Wikipedia-l] recipes

[Mark Williamson]

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 at 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 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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