Summer is here thank goodness for those of us that live in the upper portions of the United States as it means the cold weather is gone for a few months. WikiProject Food and Drink has been undergoing some major changes as recently as the last few days. Jeremy Brown has worked on a new banner which has the sibling projects nested underneath our banner. The discussion of the banner is going on here, everyone's opinion is requested. Another major project worked on by multiple members in the project and assisted by TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) and his TinucherianBot. There has been some issues with miss categorized articles which have now been tagged with our banner which you may want to add to or assist in helping fix. Please stop by the project's discussion page and help out with the effort if you can.--Chef Tanner (talk) 15:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There are currently 16,744 articles attributed to the project, an increase of 11,132 over the last month. This is due mostly to the efforts of the current tagging campaign mentioned earlier.
There are currently 2,974 stubs attributed to the project, these have increased a bit, mostly from the addition of new articles to the project. As we begin assessing these new articles from the tagging campaign these will increase exponentially.
Fifteen articles are at FA level and twenty-two are GA level articles, with no change in FA status and an increase of one at GA status. We also have an entry in the A category.
The Food Portal continues to be run by the random portal generator. I have added a number of new articles to the rotation.
Merge Annona muricata with Soursop, this being the same plant. Please see discussion pages for those articles. Vmenkov (talk) 09:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Salumi into Charcuterie, as salumi is the Italian term and charcuterie is the French term the latter article is substantially superior in quality and notes the characteristics of salumi in the article.--Chef Tanner (talk) 15:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Articles can be "tagged" currently by placing {{WikiProject Food and drink}} in an article's talk page. Please help out with accessing articles for the project once they are tagged as well. This is a tedious job for the few people who are doing it right now. Listed here are other tags you can use for identifying articles as well as yourself as a member of the project and some other useful items as well.
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