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