[edit]  About WikiProject Mixed Drinks On April 12, 2006, some Wikipedians formed a project called WikiProject Cocktails to better organize information in articles related to cocktails. In December 2006, the scope of the Project expanded to include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic mixed drinks and the drinkware associated with such beverages. On January 17, 2007, the name of the WikiProject was changed to the Mixed Drinks WikiProject (or WikiProject Mixed Drinks in Wikipedia's standard reverse naming scheme). This page and its various sub-pages contain many goals, guidelines, suggestions, and observations made by Project Participants and others interested in mixed drinks. It is hoped that this Project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians as we all work to improve and expand the English Wikipedia and its sister projects. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please refer to Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide. To help, whether you become a Participant or not, please see our To-Do List for the list of things that Project Participants have identified as needing to be done. Thank you in advance for any assistance you provide in helping make Wikipedia a better place for everyone. On April 10, 2009, the logo of this WikiProject was changed to a similar logo to avoid a potential copyright violation issue discovered on Wikimedia Commons. To avoid any murky copyright issues, Willscrlt created a new logo for the WikiProject in SVG format. This WikiProject strives to list and categorize many notable alcoholic and non-alcoholic mixed 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. [edit]  Participants You can join our project by adding your name to the participant list and placing one of the user boxes on your user page. | To join the project, click here. |
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[edit] Thank You! Thank you for adding your name to the list of people helping to improve Wikipedia's articles concerning to mixed drinks and related drinkware. No matter how little or much you help, every edit that improves Wikipedia is appreciated and helps lighten the workload of the other editors. More importantly, it improves the quality and breadth of the English Wikipedia and its sister projects. There are no special rules, regulations, or commitments required to join this WikiProject as a Participant, other than the policies and guidelines that apply to all Wikipedians. This is because a WikiProject is not a club or membership organization. It is a group of people interested in a particular topic that agree to work together within the Wikipedia framework to improve articles. The WikiProject helps to focus the activities of the group to improve efficiency. You are not required to work a certain amount of time, but obviously the more time you can offer, the faster the Project will meet its goals. Feel free to add any special project designations and special interests after your name. If you are involved with mixed drinks professionally (bartender, bar owner, food and beverage manager, etc.), please indicate that, too. After adding your name, please introduce yourself on the Participants talk page. | [edit]  Ways to contribute [edit] To do list This list is transcluded from the to do page, to edit, click here This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit this section click here.
| Here are some tasks you can do for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed Drinks: - 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:
- Get rid of Trivia sections in articles you are working on.
- Add the {{WPMIX}} banner to bartending related articles to help bring them to members attention. It could encourage new members to the project too.
| [edit] Current projects This list is transcluded from the current projects page, to edit this section click here
| These are the current projects tha the WikiProject Mixed drinks is working on: | A community forum has been established to help manage common goals of the associated Food and Drink WikiProjects. A general forum can be found 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 biographies or legal 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.
The reason this extension of the notability requirements is necessary is that there is a constant inflow of pages for restaurants that do not have, or have a very tenuous, notability. [edit]  Article information | To join the project, click here. |
[edit] Absinthe could lose its Featured Article status Absinthe has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Willscrlt (Talk) 13:43, 11 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] Expand, Merge, or Delete Backlog - Posted by Willscrlt (Talk) 06:46, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a very large backlog of articles that need to be expanded, merged into the various mixed drinks lists, or nominated for deletion (if there is nothing worth salvaging). Thanks! Please see Cat:WikiProject Mixed Drinks merge-delete candidates for articles already classified as candidates using the {{WPMIX|class=MergeDel}} tag on the articles' talk pages. [edit] WikiProject Name Change - Posted by Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 04:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Following several positive comments and unanimous consensus in favor of the proposal, the name change of this WikiProject was changed from WikiProject Cocktails to WikiProject Mixed Drinks. There are many pages that need to be moved, and red links may appear until the transition is complete. Please leave the actual contents of any templates for Willscrlt to update, but if you spot other broken links or any of the following changes, please feel free to make the changes. [edit] We have an infobox - Posted by Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 17:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Please visit {{WPMIXInfobox}} for examples of how to add our new infobox to all of the articles within the scope of our Project. This will really help! Thanks. [edit] To-Do List - Posted by Willscrlt (Talk|Cntrb) 08:20, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
A WikiProject To-Do List has been created. Please refer to and update the list as you work. Thanks. [edit] On-target articles - Various lists of information related to mixed drinks and related drinkware.
- See List of cocktails, Beer mix, Cocktail garnish, Drink mixer, Drinkware, Flaming beverage, Mixed drink shooters and drink shots, Non-alcoholic mixed drink, and Wine mix.
- Articles that provide in-depth, encyclopedic information about mixed drinks and related glassware. Such articles focus on the history of the drink; its significance and notability, both at the height of its popularity (for drinks that have faded in prominence) and in modern times; and other significant information about the drink that makes it distinguished and memorable.
- Biographies of people who have made profound contributions to the art and science of mixology, such as prominent bartenders and the founders of related organizations.
- Articles that feature notable places (bars, hotels, cities, etc.) where historical events related to mixed drinks occurred. Such articles help broaden the topic, and anchor the drinks to the real world.
- Ones that provide information about common mixed drink supplies, including bartending tools, drinkware, drink mixers, and garnishes.
[edit] Off-target articles - Recipes from a bar manual. These should be trans-wikied to Wikibooks Bartending. Depending on the length and other content within the article, an illustrative or historical drink recipe or two may be appropriate, but articles mostly comprised of recipes do not belong in the English Wikipedia.
- Articles about drinking culture and society, unless that culture is uniquely specific to mixed drinks and cocktails.
- Drinking games.
- Specific alcoholic beverages that are not mixed drinks (e.g., liquors, beers, wines).
- Specific soft drinks that are not used as drink mixers in mixed drinks. (Most drink mixers fall under the primary oversight of WikiProject Soft Drinks.)
- Fictional beverages of any type.
- Biographies of bartenders and drinkers in general, unless they are significantly associated with mixed drinks.
- Places with only a passing mention or association with mixed drinks. (e.g., Kentucky is associated with Bourbon, which is often used in mixed drinks, but that would be an off-target article; though the Kentucky Derby, as it relates to the Mint Julep might be on-target if that was a prominent part of the article itself)
| [edit] New Articles Below is a list of new articles created by WikiProject Mixed Drinks members, please take a look and give feedback. Article notices will be kept for one month. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 5-day time limit from the creation of the article. Major improvements (such as from stub to full article status) with over 1,000 character improvements also qualify:
Please feel free to list your new mixed drink or drinkware related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).
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- The second in a the series of "cocktail family" articles.
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- The first in a new series of "cocktail family" articles highlighting the various traditional classes of cocktails.
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- Nominated it for Did you know? --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 11:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for Votes for Deletion by major categories. The WikiProject Mixed Drinks-related articles at VFD should be listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Food and drink, but are more likely to be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Food and drink. Click Here to goto the Deletion Sorting section for food and drink articles listed under Articles for Deletion. Please list any articles or categories listed for deletion here so that they may be discussed. [edit] Merge/split Proposals Please list any merge or split article proposals here. [edit] Projects 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. [edit] Cleanup Please visit the Cleanup Project page for all the details and information on what you can do to help. Starting in December 2006, the primary project of the WikiProject Mixed Drinks is a Wikipedia-wide search, identification, categorization, cleanup, merge, and purge of all cocktail-related articles (which also includes beer mixes, wine mixes, shooters, non-alcoholic mixed drinks, and cocktail mixers). It is a very big job, but it would be so much easier for everyone if you could help a little. Find out how. [edit] 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. --Willscrlt 04:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Rather than adding every cocktail known to man, work on expanding the number of quality articles available from the list and merge very tiny stubs (essentially recipe-only entries) back into the master list. --Willscrlt 04:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Creating a useful list of reference guides.
[edit] Special projects The following names are informal, but designed to be fun. You can participate in any or all of the projects. If you like, you can add the special project designation after your name in the Participants list above. - BUILDER: Construct a usable Infobox template, other templates, userboxes, etc. for use by the Project and its Participants.
- CATEGORIZER: Tag all Project articles with appropriate tags so the articles are listed in the appropriate categories.
- DETECTIVE: Temporarily adopting one stub or creating a new article 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. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- IDENTIFIER: Tag all Project articles' talk pages with the Project banner. Tag articles that do not meet the Project's standards for length and quality as stubs. Tag unreferenced statements for follow-up by Project Detectives.
- PHOTOGRAPHER: Take good-quality photographs (original works that are GFDL licensed) of the various drinks listed.
- RENAMER: Rename all project articles to match the type of mixed drink: Name (cocktail) (which includes cocktail shooters; must be made primarily with distilled alcohols), Name (mixed drink) (which includes cocktail-like drinks that are not made primarily with distilled alcohols), and Name (beverage) (for non-alcoholic drinks and soft drink mixers).
[edit] Articles [edit] Hierarchy The hierarchy for mixed drink articles at Wikipedia within this Project is explained on the Hierarchy of Articles and Categories page. [edit] Structure Ideally, each Project-related article should include much or all of the following information: one or more photographs representative of the drink; suggestions for when and how the drink is commonly enjoyed (e.g., special occasions, after work, at sporting events, etc.); popularity and distribution of the drink worldwide; interesting (sourced) bits of trivia related to the drink; a list of ingredients and briefly the methods used to properly prepare, mix, and serve the drinks; the origin and history of each drink, including the (sourced) creator and date of creation; the mixed drink supplies (including drinkware) used to prepare the drinks; and anything else (sourced) that enhances the reader's understanding of the drink. [edit] Priority The highest priority is given to general informational articles on the topics of mixed drinks and the various lists of mixed drinks the Project maintains. Secondary priority is given to highly notable drinks, such as the IBA Official Cocktails, which are popular worldwide, along with the drinkware used with such drinks. Also at that priority are articles that do not focus on drinks directly, but expand into people and places notable for their contributions to or connections with mixed drinks. Third priority is given to less notable drinks, drinkware, people, and places. While at a relatively lower priority, the workload is high, because these articles usually require additional investigation to determine if there is enough information to justify an entire article, or if the article should be combined with another topic, only listed in passing on one of the mixed drink lists, or omitted entirely. As of January 7, 2007, the highest priority within the Project is building a usable Assessment Department to assess and identify articles within the Scope of the WikiProject. Another high priority is to complete the Project Style Guide, which establishes standards that articles within the Scope of this WikiProject should meet. Helping to bring all such articles into compliance with the standards, along with assessing them, is the goal of the Cleanup Project that runs from December 2006 through February 28, 2007. [edit] Model mixed drink articles These are some of the best articles within the scope of our Project. [edit] Good mixed drink articles While not quite model articles, these incorporate many of the preferred features. [edit] Good alcoholic beverage articles which include cocktails In certain cases it makes sense to combine the few notable mixed drinks along with their primary alcohol. [edit] Templates [edit] Useful References DYN (Did you know?), article improvement drive, collaboration of the week, deletion sorting, featured articles and candidates, featured pictures and candidates, featured lists and candidates, and peer reviews. |
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