You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived.
Some Wikipedians have formed a taskforce to better organize information in articles related to beverages. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This project is dedicated to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to beverages around the world, their history, and their cultural impact. If you would like to help, please inquire on the discussion page, see the Task list below or just start editing articles and link them to the project using the {{WikiProject Food and drink|drinks=yes}} banner.
Scope
This taskforce aims to provide a centralized location for the discussion of standards for work on beverage articles in Wikipedia. This should be categorized there but are not yet.
Major classes
Soft drinks
Mixed drinks
One of the major areas of focus in the task force is the listing and categorization of notable alcoholic and non-alcoholicmixed drinks (most notably "cocktails") and related drinkware). It is neither an attempt to create a bar manual (Wikibooks already has a nice bartending manual under development) nor a list of every known mixed drink on the planet. Instead, it is an attempt to create a useful, in-depth topical reference on currently and historically popular mixed drinks. Non-alcoholic mixed drinks are shared with our sister WikiProject Soft Drinks, though we are primarily responsible for maintaining the quality of such articles.
Coffee and tea
Participants
You can join our project by adding your name to the participant list and placing the user box {{User Beverages TF}} on your user page. Feel free to list any special interests after your name.
Willscrlt(talk·contribs·count) - Mostly working on coordination between sister-WikiProjects within Food & Drink (template development, Wiki features, etc.). Project historian and sort of the founder of its current incarnation of the former Mixed Drink WikiProject; occasionally help as my limited time permits
This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit this section click here.
Here are some tasks you can do for Beverages Task Force:
Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status:
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA Status:
Articles for creation:
Get rid of Trivia sections in articles you are working on.
Add the {{WPFOOD|bar=yes}} banner to bartending related articles to help bring them to members attention. It could encourage new members to the project too.
Current projects
This list is transcluded from the current projects page, to edit this section click here
These are the current projects that WikiProject Soft Drinks is working on:
(Presently none)
Community forums
In 2008, a community forum was established to help manage common goals of the associated Food and Drink WikiProjects. The inactive discussion is located here.
Goal specific forums
Guidelines forum - This forum has been set up for the various Food and Drink projects to develop a set of Manual of Style guidelines for use in articles under the auspices of all the related Food and Drink WikiProjects and task forces. This would be similar to the MoS guidelines for biographiesorlegal articles.
Restaurant notability guidelines discussion - This guideline is intended to extend WP:CORP, in no way to replace its purpose, in regard to restaurants. It is also not intended to replace, supplant, or otherwise alter the standard notability requirements.
We shall try to follow the Manual of Style for all of our articles. We shall initially be addressing those articles contained in the Category:beverages
Some Project Participants may enjoy working on special projects. One such special project is taking good-quality photographs (original works that are freely licensed) of the various drinks listed. Another special project is temporarily adopting one stub and becoming a super sleuth, tracking down as much information as possible about a drink, writing a good article, and documenting all sources used within the article. See Special Projects below for more information.
Cleanup
Please visit the Cleanup Project page for all the details and information on what you can do to help.
The primary project of the Beverages Task Force is a Wikipedia-wide search, identification, categorization, cleanup, merge, and purge of all drink-related articles (excluding articles under the purview of the Beer, Wine, and Spirits WikiProject). It is a very big job, but it would be so much easier for everyone if you could help a little.
Ongoing projects
Cross-referencing cocktails, beer cocktails, and wine cocktails by liquor used as well as alphabetical by drink.
Alphabetical lists are better handled by creating a category and tagging all related articles with the category tag. Manual lists have to be constantly maintained or the list becomes quickly outdated. Categories are self-generating. I see the same is already being done with some of the liquors. --Willscrlt04:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rather than adding every beverage known to man, work on expanding the number of quality articles available from the various lists including list of cocktails and merge very tiny stubs (essentially recipe-only entries) back into the master lists.
Below is a list of new articles created by Beverages Taskforce members, please take a look and give feedback. Article notices will be kept for one month. Please feel free to list your new beverages-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.
Below is a list of new articles created by Beverages Taskforce members, featured on the Did you know? on the Main Page. Article notices will be kept for one month.
Community forums
Article information
