Policy

This page describes policies for pages in this wiki.

References

Each recipe requires a title, followed by at least two notable references and then a sentence or two describing the recipe. Recipe pages should not contain the history of a recipe or any other editorials. After the description, the list of ingredients must be shown followed by the instructions. Links to ingredients should be links to the page on Wikipedia not a local version. Next should be links to the recipes of notable variations with a quick summary of each variation. This is then followed by the references, a link to the relevant Wikipedia pages and then External Links.

Generally speaking, for a given food, there should be only one recipe per locale per language and the recipe need to be self-contained. Exceptions include variations where an ingredient is optional or substituted but the instructions and other portions remain exactly the same as the original recipes.

Recipe Formatting

Recipes should be formatted according to the recipe template.

Pages needing work

Pages which need work should be tagged with the {{cookwork}} template, and will appear in Category:Cookbook pages needing work. When a recipe has been sufficiently improved, the template should be removed.

Naming Conventions

Case

The de-facto naming convention for a page is title case.

Name

Recipes should be named according to their name as per the references.

Recipes with a non-English name that have a common English name should be named with their common English name. For example, the primary name for Khaeng Keaw Wan should be Thai Green Curry. If necessary or desired a redirect from the name in the original language can be created. In cases where the non-English name is the common name, that name should be used, as in Huevos Rancheros.

Recipes names with special characters (diacritics, etc) should be primarily spelled with simple ASCII characters and a redirect should be created with the special characters included.

Special Diets

Recipes for a special diet which are substantially adjusted variations of a normal recipe should be denoted by the diet name in parentheses after the name of the recipe. A vegan variation of Chili would be Chili (Vegan); a gluten-free variation of Brownie would be Brownies (Gluten-Free); a lactose-free variation of Milkshake would be Milkshake (Lactose-Free). Recipes which adhere to a special diet, but are not variations for that specific diet should not be named in this fashion; instead only the appropriate category should be added. Trivial variations should be listed on the recipe page itself.

Duplicate Recipes and Disambiguation Pages

When there is more than one recipe for a single type of food, there are several ways to resolve the situation:

1. If one recipe is of poor quality or has no references, delete it.
2. If one recipe can be expressed as a variation upon the other, include it in the variations section.
3. If the recipes can be merged into a single recipe, merge them and delete the originals.
4. Create a disambiguation page for the 'abstract' type of food (using the template as a header) and give each recipe a unique name.

Categories

Categories are required to adhere to the following standard.

1. "Normal Capitalization" wikipedia form of capitalized first letter, lowercased first letter elsewhere (except with proper nouns).

2. The cuisine(s) that the recipe is applicable to should be noted and backed up with references that indicate that the recipe is, in fact, part of the noted cuisine.

3. If the recipe is for something that is generally internationally recognized, such as Margherita Pizza, the cuisine of origin should the only cuisine related category associated to the recipe.

For recipe categorization by ingredient, origin, diet, meal type, and recipe type classifications there is a tendency to use the "___ recipes" format e.g.:

• Category:Egg recipes (by ingredient)
• Category:Italian recipes (by origin)
• Category:Vegan recipes (by diet)
• Category:Cake recipes (by recipe type)
• Category:Dessert recipes (by meal type)

Cuisine Pages

Cuisine Page should have a brief one or two sentence description followed by a link to the Wikipedia description of the cuisine. It is essentially a portal to recipes with a category of that cuisine.