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The Official Style Guide for WikiProject Cocktails

Section: Titles of Articles, Categories, and other Wikipedia Entries

The following guidelines are useful for creating a standard look, feel, and method of linking to the various articles within the scope of the Project. Please respect these guidelines, but if you must break from these standards, explain the justification on each article's talk page to avoid edit wars.

For concerns, suggestions, or comments about these specific guidelines, please use this section's talk page.

Contents

[edit] General conventions

  • Article names should be created in the singular form (e.g., Irish coffee, not Irish coffees).
  • A redirect should be created from the plural form to the singular for readers who are not aware of this convention.
  • The first letter and all proper names of people, places, things, or brands should always be capitalized.
  • All remaining letters should be in lower case.
  • Examples: Long Island iced tea, Gin and tonic, Bloody Mary
  • When mixed capitalization is present in a title, create additional redirects as necessary.
  • Unless part of a trademarked brand name, ampersands ("&") should not be used in the article title.
  • Example 1: [[Gin & tonic (cocktail)]] redirects to [[Gin and tonic (cocktail)]]
  • Example 2: [[Seven & Seven (cocktail)]] redirects to [[Seven and seven (cocktail)]]
  • Unless part of a trademarked brand name, numerals should be spelled out in the article title.
  • Example: [[7 and 7 (cocktail)]] redirects to [[Seven and seven (cocktail)]]
  • Example: [[7 & 7 (cocktail)]] redirects to [[Seven and seven (cocktail)]]


[edit] Articles concerning specific beverages

[edit] Non-ambiguous drink names

  • Links to such articles should link to the disambiguated name (e.g., Long Island iced tea (cocktail)) to avoid having to edit the links if the name becomes ambiguous in the future.
  • Example: Link to [[Long Island iced tea (cocktail)]], which redirects to [[Long Island iced tea]]. This extra redirect has minimal impact on Wikipedia or the reader, but may save a lot of time manually editing broken links in the future.

[edit] Potentially ambiguous drink names

  • Since many things may use drink names within their own name (band names, book titles, and movie title are frequent examples), it is often wise to assume that all except the most common drink names could be ambiguous, either now or in the future. Therefore, it is (arguably) better to create the article with the disambiguated title initially, and redirect from the main entry through a redirect. This allows other editors an easy way to create a future disambiguation page by simply editing the redirect page.
  • Creating the page with disambiguation information initially, results in fewer links needing to be updated if an article is later moved due to disambiguation.
  • Example 1: Instead of creating [[Sample]], create [[Sample (cocktail)]], and then create [[Sample]] as a redirect to [[Sample (cocktail)]].
  • Example 2: Linking to [[Sample (cocktail)]] initially, means that if someone creates another article titled [[Sample (something else)]] and changes the redirect at [[Sample]] into a disambiguation page, no changes have to be made to any articles that linked to [[Sample (cocktail)]].

[edit] Ambiguous drink names

  • Any article that is titled with the same name as another article, like screwdriver, must be disambiguated by placing a descriptive term after the name enclosed within parentheses.
  • When you create the link, you may initially use the pipe trick to save keystrokes as you type the links.
  • Example 1: Type [[Screwdriver (cocktail)|]], and when the page is saved, it will automatically be converted to [[Screwdriver (cocktail)|Screwdriver]], which displays as Screwdriver.
  • Example 2: An initial lower case letter works, too; [[screwdriver (cocktail)|]] is saved as [[Screwdriver (cocktail)|screwdriver]], which displays as screwdriver.
  • Example 3: Adding characters after the link hyperlinks the characters without making them part of the actual internal link; [[Buck's Fizz (cocktail)|]]es is saved as [[Buck's Fizz (cocktail)|Buck's Fizz]]es, which displays as Buck's Fizzes.

[edit] Selecting the best disambiguation term

Mixed drinks
  • A mixed drink that is commonly prepared either with or without alcohol (for example, Piña Coladas and Daqauris) should be disambiguated as (mixed drink).
  • A redirect should be created from (cocktail) pointing to (mixed drink).
  • A non-alcoholic mixed drink (for example, Shirley Temples and Rob Roys) should be disambiguated as (mixed drink).
  • A redirect should be created from (cocktail) pointing to (mixed drink).
Beer cocktails
  • Alcoholic mixed drinks in which the primary alcohol by volume is beer (including ales, lagers, pilsners, stouts, etc.) should be disambiguated as (beer cocktail).
  • A redirect should be created from (cocktail) pointing to (beer cocktail).
Wine cocktails
  • Alcoholic mixed drinks in which the primary alcohol by volume is wine (including Champagne and other sparkling wines, ports, red and white wines, etc.) should be disambiguated as (wine cocktail).
  • A redirect should be created from (cocktail) pointing to (wine cocktail).
  • Alcoholic punches in which the primary alcohol by volume is wine should be disambiguated as (wine punch).
  • A redirect should be created from (cocktail) pointing to (wine punch).
True cocktails
  • Any other alcoholic mixed drinks in which nearly 50% or more of the alcohol is a distilled spirit (including bourbon, brandy, cognac, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, whiskey, etc.) should be disambiguated as (cocktail).
  • Any other alcoholic mixed drinks containing an undetermined amount of distilled spirits with other mixers should be disambiguated as (cocktail), unless, through convention or other logical reasoning, some other term is more appropriate. (This is deliberately vague to allow for special situations that might occur.)
Most other drinks
  • Most other beverages should be disambiguated simply as (drink) if they are within the scope of the Project.
Unusual situations
  • Shooters should be disambiguated as an ordinary mixed drink, beer cocktail, wine cocktail, wine punch, cocktail, or drink, unless the regular and shooter versions are uniquely different enough to warrant separate full articles. Only in such cases, should the shooter article be disambiguated as (shooter).
  • Straight shots of a liquor generally do not warrant a separate full article; however, if one were to do so, it should be disambiguated as (shot).


[edit] Articles concerning drinkware

[edit] General considerations

  • Specific examples will be added to this section. For now, creatively adapt the guidelines above.
  • Beverageware is a synonym for drinkware, but drinkware is (along with the translations of the term) the more commonly used term throughout Wikispace. Therefore, it is the preferred term when referring to this subject.
  • Stemware is a subset of drinkware, and probably also a subset of glassware.
  • Remember that "drinkware" is not a subset of "glassware", nor is all glassware automatically drinkware.
  • Barware, when it refers to drinkware, but also includes items such as pitchers and other that are not drinkware.

[edit] Drinkware disambiguation terms

This is an initial draft. Please discuss this on the talk page if you have any concerns or ideas for improvement.

From most to least specific
  • (stemware) (including plastic) - drinking glasses with stems.
  • (drinking glass) (including plastic) - drinking glasses without stems.
  • (glassware) (not plastic) - primarily for decorative or non-drinking items made from glass.
  • (barware) - drinking vessels (e.g., steins and tankards) and other containers (e.g., beer pitchers and wine carafes) primarily used in drinking establishments (bars, clubs, restaurants) that are made from any material.
  • (drinkware) - drinking vessels and directly related containers (e.g., coffee mugs, teacups, water pitchers, thermoses) made from any material that are not better categorized elsewhere.


[edit] Articles concerning topics

  • Keep the topic specific, but non-exclusive.
  • Example 1: Flaming beverage is preferable to Flaming cocktail since the article discusses in a general way the process and concerns about serving any flaming beverage, not only cocktails.
  • Example 2: Cocktail garnish is preferable to Beverages garnish since the article is only concerned with the types of garnishes used to decorate cocktails.
  • If uncertain and there is a standard way of referring to the topic, use it as the topic title.
  • Create redirects as necessary to link alternate titles to the main article.


[edit] Category titles

Main article: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
  • Readers use categories to browse through similar articles. Categories are collections of articles; therefore, category titles should be plural.
  • Please refer to our Hierarchy of Articles and Categories for the list of current and planned category titles used by the Project.
  • New categories for specific types of liquors (Cocktails with example) could be created, but are generally ill advised unless there are at least 10-25 drinks that fit within that category. Even some of the current categories barely meet that, but they were created to match the classifications used within the List of cocktails and Mixed drink shooters and drink shots articles.


[edit] List titles

[edit] List considerations

  • Lists are a lot more work to maintain than categories, but tend to be more interactive than categories. It is difficult to take pride in most automatically generated categories, but a well crafted list may become a featured list.
  • Categories should be used when a strictly alphabetical list of articles is desired.
  • Lists should be used when additional information is provided along with an entry or when non-alphabetical ordering or structuring is desired.

[edit] List names

  • Please refer to our Hierarchy of Articles and Categories for the list of current and planned list titles used by the Project.
  • Generally, the title should follow the "List of examples" standard, where examples is an already established article name written as a plural subject.
  • Do not capitalize the subject, unless it is a proper noun (person, place, thing, or brand).
  • Example 1: original article: Cocktail; new list: List of cocktails (not List of Cocktails).
  • Example 2: original article: Tequila; new list: List of tequilas from Mexico.
  • A poor example, but illustrates the capitalization and pluralization concepts along with indicating geographic specificity.


[edit] Templates

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cocktails/Templates
See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cocktails/Tags
  • When creating a new template for the Project, create the template within the Project-space (i.e., a page under Wikipedia:WikiProject Cocktails/Templates), unless the template will be of use Wikipedia-wide, in which case it should be placed in main space (i.e., a page under Template:)
  • Prefix Project templates with WPMixed (e.g., WPMixedNav)
  • WPMixed is preferred to WPCocktail due to the likely eventual change in WikiProject name from Cocktails to Mixed Drinks.