Talk:Bellini (cocktail)

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[edit] Copyright violation - Fixed

This article had a lot of similarities to the That's the Spirit article. Don't know which was the original. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philvarner (talk • contribs) February 4, 2007


I think this edit indicates that Wikipedia was the one in violation. :-( It's rather unlikely that anyone could add that much information to the article in a single edit if he/she was creating it from scratch. I know that even using previews, I still make an average of 3 or more edits anytime I do major renovation to an article, and even 6 edits seems fairly common for many editors.

I went through the article, picked out the original (non-copyrighted) contributions other editors made originally and since. I combined that with a lot of new (properly sourced) information I found, and rewrote the article from scratch.

I added an unreferenced claim of "Complimentary Bellini cocktails are included with several tour packages of Venice available for online booking." This statement was made based on at least four different tour companies making this offer, as discovered in a Google search conducted on February 5, 2007. I did not directly link to the offers, because that would only serve as link spam in this situation.

I also standardized the recipe and ingredients to the IBA Official Cocktail standards, added a really good link to a site that shows step-by-step how to make the drink, and tracked down a so-so photo (a more traditional image would be better for the main photo and the one I found could be moved to the variations section).

I am still uncertain of the "correct" date the drink was created. Apparently the other sources I used are, too, because I found more than one site that states "in the 1940's". I found dates of 1938, 1943, and 1948. The 1948 date is the most common one I uncovered, but the sources that used that date also included other information from the That's the Spirit article (which could mean they got the date from that article or from the older copy at Wikipedia). If anyone has a book giving the historical date printed prior to, say, 2004, then that would probably be a more reliable source for the date. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 09:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)