Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drying of herbs and spices


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 03:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Drying of herbs and spices

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This article consists of How-To information. RJFJR (talk) 15:32, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The award-winning Encyclopedia of Food and Culture has a section about this topic. Scholarly papers such as Effect of drying on the volatile constituents of thyme and sage seem easy to find.  The topic is therefore both notable and capable of improvement per our editing policy. Warden (talk) 20:27, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The nomination seems to revolve around the fact that it's written like a how-to article. This can be fixed; the article itself shouldn't be deleted.KVDP (talk) 11:03, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTHOW. Any sourceable information about the effects of drying on potency, etc., or about significant methods of drying can easily find a home in Spice or some similar place. There's no such information here, however. Deor (talk) 14:41, 5 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Would fail WP:NOTHOWTO, except that it's nowhere near good enough for that. This is poorly and carelessly written, although proof-reading could fix that. More seriously though, there's just no content here. "This moment in time [for collecting] is different for each plant." tells nothing useful to the level of an encyclopedia article. We can do better, and we should start by ruthlessly throwing away anything this poor. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is almost a classic case of a badly-written article on a verifiable and notable topic, which can be improved through the normal editing process.  Admittedly, it is mostly "hot to" cruft, but that can be fixed. Bearian (talk) 17:04, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Is it going to be re-written though? Going by past experience, I very much doubt it. Should it be re-written in some distant future, nor do I see anything in the present article that's worth keeping around until that happy day. In the meantime, we'd be better without. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete–In this case I have to agree that this is not an appropriate article for Wikipedia. If the article were about why drying is beneficial, then that would be a different matter. But it is entirely a how-to guide and would need a complete re-write. There's nothing here to rescue. Regards, RJH (talk) 22:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly not a suitable topic per WP:NOTHOW. The only references listed are a WikiHow article and an article titled "How to dry herbs" from about.com! Neither one qualifies as a reliable source. The only way to fix this article would to make it about the history and use of dried herbs and spices, and that information would be far more appropriately included in those articles directly.  Jim Miller  See me 12:38, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: blatant WP:HOWTO. That a new article with this title might be created from scratch that is not a howto guide, does not change the fact that this article should be deleted because it blatantly and pervasively violates WP:NOT. I would further point out what that "our [REAL] editing policy" (which CW pipes to only an irrelevant section of) actually states is that such material "is fundamentally inappropriate for Wikipedia". HrafnTalkStalk(P) 16:59, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete please NOTHOWTO. Agree with JimMillerJr that encyclopedic content on dried herbs and spices belongs into those parent articles. Hekerui (talk) 14:32, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.