Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Soft drinks

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This page was nominated for deletion on 25 November 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Contents 1 Project directory 2 Project Scope? 3 Assessments? 4 Proposed merger with tea

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Scope?

I'm thinking here that we might want to expand the scope of this project beyond simply carbonated soft drinks to possibly include milk, coffee, tea, mate, and the other drinks in the Category:Non-alcoholic beverages as well. Right now, there are no active projects dealing with these subjects, which are of serious importance to the daily lives of a number of people, and I think it might be a good idea to expand, so that, if nothing else, these articles will be observed by somebody. I welcome any and all responses. Badbilltucker 01:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

We might as well expand the scope of the project to include most or all nonalcoholic drinks. For that matter, I still wonder if we shouldn't just merge with WikiProject Food and drink. I'm not trying to kill the project, and I plan to start helping out some (I've been on a wikibreak for a while), but I don't know if there are enough members to keep two separate projects going. The food and drink project seems pretty slow as it is. But, if people don't want to merge, then it would probably make sense to have one project for food and one project for nonalcoholic drinks. There are already projects for beer and wine, so I guess that just leaves other alcoholic drinks... I don't know where they'd fit in. WikiProject Vodka, anyone? Philbert^2.71828 00:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments?

Hi. As many of you will see, I just joined the project today. I know from personal experience that there are a number of projects out there engaged in assessments, and I wonder whether the members of this project would be interested in performing them on these articles as well. It does have the advantage of giving us a clear idea of where the articles stand in terms of quality. Also, it might be possible for us to agree to select a given set or number of articles as being of Top-importance to the project. After discussing which articles should be included, it would give us some guidelines on which articles are most deserving of concentrated effort to improve. As above, I welcome any and all responses. Badbilltucker 01:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

We should probably come up with some idea of what a good soft drink article should be like, and criteria for whether a given drink warrants its own page. There are probably quite a few articles that are stubs simply because there isn't much to say about some drinks. See for example Mezzo Mix, tuKola, and Coca-Cola with Lemon. I started the Lemon Coke article because all of the other varieties of Coke already had their own articles, but I don't think every drink necessarily needs its own article. I've been planning to consolidate some of the less famous varieties of Coke into one page, Varieties of Coca-Cola, but haven't done it yet (see User:Philbert2.71828/Varieties of Coca-Cola for a start). We should probably decide which articles can be expanded and which ones could be consolidated into an article discussing a particular company's soft drink lineup, for example. Philbert^2.71828 01:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger with tea

I wonder if the members of the project would consider merging the now inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject Tea into this project. That project has had comparatively little recent activity, and has a few templates which I think it might be a good idea to keep in use. Any and all responses are welcome. Badbilltucker 23:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)