Talk:List of wineries in the Barossa Valley

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This article was nominated for deletion on December 3, 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Update

I have updated this list, adding a number of wineries, websites and 'icon wines' where possible. I removed one one or two wineries located in the Eden Valley region, which has a separate Wikipedia entry. I removed one 'winery' that is simply a production facility with no brands of its own. Please add and amend as necessary. AussieBoy 07:03, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Excellent work. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I have done some further updates and corrections. Always a work in progress! AussieBoy 07:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the external link column. The wikipedia is not a linkfarm or the white/yellow pages. Also, external links are not meant to tunnel people away from the wikipedia. For more information, please see WP:EL/WP:NOT. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dirk. I have read the guidelines you indicate and cannot see how they require the removal of the external links here. In fact, it appears to me that these guidelines require that these links be present. WP:EL states: "What should be linked: Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any." I will reinstate the external links column. Without it, this table is greatly reduced in its utility. The table includes the "icon" wines of each winery, and internal links to the Wikipedia sites for these wineries, where these exist (I am considering writing some more of these). I would argue that wineries are in a unique position, in that, while they may be seen as manufacturing a product, that product, wine, has a special cultural history and significance (in Western culture, at least). It is, therefore, quite different from a list of, for example, shoe manufacturers. AussieBoy 11:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:NOT a repository of links Really, I don't even see what the purpose of this page is for, have you considered that a category could work almost as well. With the current format the only additional information you're imparting is the signature wine, and an EL. Add to that the fact that most of these articles don't exist yet, and I think that this page missed on both WP:NOT and WP:CORP (as most of the members of the list don't have articles yet). I would suggest nominating this for AfD, I'll probably go ahead unless you have a convincing argument for keeping it.

Best of Luck,

Crazynas ^t 11:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I do not have strong views on this, but for now it looks like a good list to remind us to write articles on all the Barossa wineries or at least mention them somewhere else. A list of redlinks are good for that. A category of course can not have redlinks. --Bduke 12:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

This is precisely why I started this article. I think the attitude towards its deletion is very closed minded. ◄scharks► 22:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think lists are meant for 'articles to be created', wikipedia has Wikipedia:Requested articles for that (and the articles that exist go into a category). Still, this article reads more like a google-result page on the search for wineries in the Barossa Valley, or like a page from the yellow pages and that was why I removed the external links-column from the site (per WP:NOT#REPOSITORY). Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Dirk, I was arguing against deletion, not for the URL links, although I think the links are useful here as they are, for example, on the lists of scientific publications in chemistry. --Bduke 21:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I will not put lists up for deletion, but I still believe that none of these lists do not really have a function. The redlinked articles belong on the request page (they are there, right?) and existing articles in categories. Moreover, the external links do not comply with the policy WP:NOT#REPOSITORY; wikipedia is not the white/yellow pages. (Bduke, for a link to a scientific journal I would look for a Category:Scientific journals, and select the page of the journal from the category and scroll to the external link section). Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 22:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia policy actually indicate that I should have put the "redlinked articles" on the request page? Please direct me to the appropriate policy and I will consider adding them if it is my responsibility. Presumably your reference to Wikipedia not being the White/Yellow Pages relates to the section in WP:NOT#REPOSITORY that states: "Directories, directory entries, TV/Radio Guides, or a resource for conducting business. For example, an article on a radio station generally should not list upcoming events, current promotions, phone numbers, schedules, programme lists, etc., although mention of major events or promotions may be acceptable. Furthermore, the Talk pages associated with an article are for talking about the article, not for conducting the business of the topic of the article. Wikipedia is not the yellow pages." This really does not appear to fit this table very well at all. You also have simply not addressed my argument concerning the special cultural status of wine as a commodity, either. These wineries are businesses, yes, but the product, wine, occupies a highly esteemed cultural and even intellectual role, and the sites contain much information concerning variation in vintage conditions, detailed tasting notes, links to reviews on particular wines, and show awards. You could argue that all of this should be on Wikipedia, but it is clear that the individual wineries will collate these data much better on an ongoing basis. It seems very strange to me to leave this table on Wikipedia minus the links. Are any of the people participating in this debate (other than Scharks) actually knowledgeable about wine? I am a scientist with extensive knowledge of wine and believe that this table is very useful to other people interested in wine (and won't they be by far the main users of this page?). Note that the Barossa Valley is a high quality wine area in world terms, and the vast majority of these wineries produce red wine (mainly Shiraz-based) of very high quality. Another possibility may be to add this table (with the links) to the article on the Barossa Valley, which already has a small list of wineries. What do you think of this suggestion? P.S., perhaps the List of Songs About Masturbation should be deleted from Wikipedia as well (joke!)? AussieBoy 05:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Please, don't understand me wrong, I argue that 'list of' pages often do not comply with WP:NOT, they become lists of names, with a weblink and nothing else happens. I did not state the other options were governed by policies, but they are options that are not in violation with guidelines and policies. When you type "Stanley Lambert" in the searchbox on the left, you are brought to a page that says "No page with that title exists. You can create this page or request it". So I think that is the place where people would expect to request it, not on a list here; I think this list (and many, many others) should be incorporated in the request page.

This page is one of the better examples of a list page (I mean, this one is quite well organised). It has wikilinks to the pages and a weblink next to it (they often contain only an external link. Though, it still results in people being tunneled away from wikipedia, and I believe that the redlinks in this page are very quickly converted into bluelinks by starting the pages with:

{{|winerybox|owner = a|name=b|homepage=c}}
The x is a winery in the Barossa Valley.  The winery is owned by y.  Its specialities are z.

==external links== 
* weblink to homepage  

[[Category:Barossa Valley winery]]  

{{tl|Barossa Valley winery stub}}

Then all the pages are categorised and a list-page is not necessary. This goes for a lot of lists, and others are plain internet directories. (the winerybox is an example, probably needs the right box, but I do not know which one is appropriate here)

I will leave this list for now; I think the discussion whether or not 'list of' pages should be in the wikipedia should probably be held at a higher level. See you around. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)