Talk:Sonoma County wineries

Improving the article

I see that this list and paras was moved here from the Sonoma County article, and that as "just a list" it has been nominated for deletion. I think the article has lots of potential so I have done some reference checking, added refs, added a section on history. I also think that the list could be organized differently to be more helpful, e.g., by date the winery was established, by varietal or something. I don't know. I am not a wine expert! Also, someone on the nomination talk page had suggested discussing the awards won by Sonoma wineries, and that seems like a good idea, too. I am just listing these ideas here for future additions and edits, by me or someone else. --Tinned Elk 19:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

• I've gotten a very small start at cleaning up the list - we shouldn't have a flat list of every winery in small fonts, that's unusable and nearly illegibile. I suggest we go to some list format and try to make that standard for all the California winery lists / articles with lists. Any blue-link winery should be listed on theory that it's notability and if not that can be discussed elsewhere. For red-links / unlinked wineries that are notable but don't yet have articles we can either count on people's judgment or if it becomes a problem, do what some other lists do and require a citation to a reliable source as a gate-keeping threshold for being on the list.Wikidemo 14:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

My one tidbit of info w/o a reference citation is "Acorn Winery - vineyards date from 1890, Winery established in 1994." Don't know if that makes them notable. Or not. I thought I had written up some of the history, but it may have gone into the California wine history section. I agree with your ideas. Go for it.Tinned Elk 00:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

List of wineries

For now I'm putting the master list here, but commenting it out so it doesn't clutter up the page. I suggest we adopt the following standards. If they work they could be a model for the similar articles we have for other Bay Area wine counties and perhaps throughout the state:

• Any current or historic winery with its own article is sourced and eligible for inclusion - presumably that means it's notable; if not the place to take that up is with respect to the article in question.
• If anyone wants to add a winery to the list they should, but only if they can find and add a citation to a reliable source that establishes the winery's notability. It doesn't have to be fully notable to be worth mentioning, but it has to be at least semi-notable. It should be more than just a travel guide or vacation listing, review of the wine, passing reference, etc.
• When adding a winery it's best to say a few sourced words after the winery name (a non-spammy sentence or phrase about why it's important and why we should care)
• People should feel free to challenge (one at a time, please) that a winery on the list isn't really that important. No sparring, please...but if you can't find any good references and don't think there are any, it's fair to point that out and say the winery shouldn't be on the list.
• The current list (subject to some reasonable initial changes) is grandfathered in because it's just too difficult to whip every listing into shape all at once. But over time, people ought to add a reference to each one and/or a brief description.

-- Wikidemo 23:53, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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