Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Beverages Task Force/Archive/Mixed Drinks 3

This article may be right but that is not where this name came from

This name orginated on Feb 24, 1895 when the Cubans were shouting it at the US ships b/c of the tariffs raised on sugar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.177.15.146 (talk) 13:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm assuming Cuba Libre is the article in question? This would be better added to Talk:Cuba Libre, if it's not already discussed there. --Willscrlt (Talk) 00:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Brands?

Why doesn't this wikiproject look over brand names of alcohol? For example Bushmills or Crown Royal? ♣DeathRattle101 AKA LUX♣ (^verbalize_generosity) 11:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Good idea, but not really right for this Wikiproject. The reason is that the project was originally created as "Wikiproject Cocktails", and then it was expanded to include all mixed drinks. Covering the alcohol, too, would really add to the workload of the project. What is missing is a Wikiproject Spirits (not to be confused with the Halloween kind). We have a WP:BEER and WP:WINE, but we are missing Wikipedia:Wikiproject Distilled Spirits. In many ways, WP:MIX is a combination of each of those projects--a mix, if you will, of those individually large and rich project scopes. --Willscrlt (Talk) 00:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Rum Swizzle

The article Rum Swizzle is currently undergoing an AfD debate. Comments form policy savvy editors (for deletion or against it) will be very welcome in order to generate consensus. Thanks. - House of Scandal (talk) 19:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

• Although it looks likely it will be kept, there is some ongoing debate regarding the factual accuracy of some of the claims in the article. Beeblbrox (talk) 22:37, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

• AfD now closed as a speedy keep. Beeblbrox (talk) 16:01, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

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Community forum on standards

Based upon a discussion on the WP Food talk page, a community forum has been set up for the various Food and Drink projects develop a set of Manual of Style guidelines for use in articles under the auspices of the related Food and Drink WikiProjects and their task forces. These guidelines would be similar to the MoS guidelines for biographies or legal topics.

The following pages have created these pages for this purpose:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Article guidelines

Once a consensus has been reached, this page is where we will post the standards.

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Article guidelines

Please discuss the development of the standards on this page.

Upon a general consensus has been reached for each set of standards, we will submit it to the appropriate discussion board for a ratification discussion.

All members of this project are invited to participate.

--Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 02:55, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

I have copied your article guidelines to the page since your project had already developed a good set. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 16:37, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. We try. :-) --Willscrlt (Talk) 05:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Absinthe FARC

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. Please notify anyone else involved.Domiy (talk) 03:48, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations to all the editors who have gotten it that far! (Myself included, since I think I made at least a few trivial edits to it.) <grin> I'll add this to our main project page, too. Thanks for the notice. --Willscrlt (Talk) 13:39, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Boy did I misunderstand what you meant. I thought you were indicating that it was a Good Article now being discussed for turning into a FA, not an already FA being discussed for demotion. In that case, "boo!" to the editors who have failed to keep it up (myself included!). Let's try to salvage it, folks. --Willscrlt (Talk) 13:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Tom Collins

I just expanded the Tom Collins article. The best write up on the topic was this. However, Image:TomCollinsOrigins.PNG was a significant find for Wikipedia as it significantly tilts the orgins of the drink issues back to the U.S. and, along with the other research in the Wikipedia article, makes Wikipedia the best source on the Tom Collins cocktail. -- Suntag ☼ 08:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Caipirinha: "Gay Piranha" nickname true or false?

see: [1] --CuteHappyBrute (talk) 20:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Advice needed: alcoholic beverages

This is a copied question from my talk page along with my answer, If anyone could add their input it would be greatly appreciated. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 19:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

We often add "(food)" for disambiguation purposes to various foods/dishes. Similarly "(water)" is added to mineral or bottled water brands. What is the practice with alcoholic beverages? I would like to create an article for oghi (an Armenian vodka distilled from various local fruits or berries), but this title is already taken. What do you suggest I call it? Oghi (drink)? Thanks for your attention. --Zlerman (talk) 15:19, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I would use the article Arak (distilled beverage) as a reference. But lets ask the Mixed drinks WikiProject for their input. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 19:33, 11 December 2008 (UTC)