On Feb 25, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I do get a little hot over these deletion issues. :-)
I understand. I'm very much against deletion of recipes (and most
valid information), I just think we need to define the right place for
them.
The expression that I found most patronizing was
"it might merit its
own section". I suspect that the subtleties between descriptive and
prescriptive or between imperatiuve and indicative might not be
meningful to the casual reader who wants to find out about a food
and/or how to make it. The technical detailsof chocolate cakes are
not inherently controversial. If different ways exist for making such
a cake, the results of which is better can be entirely subjective.
My point was not about controversy or POV, just about appropriateness.
A drink recipe generally describes the drink, while a chocolate cake
recipe does not describe chocolate cake. If a particular cake recipe
is famous and generally significant, I would say it warrants its own
section or article (regarding its significance, history, etc.). There
the recipe *would* describe the topic (being the topic itself).
Using a wrong word that gives the sentence a different
meaning, rather
than just making it meaningless can launch a discussion into a very
different direction. I confess to being quick to notice this kind of
thing as I did with the earlier part of your previous post.
"Proscriptive" and "prescriptive" have almost contradictory meanings,
but grammaticaly can fit equally well into the same context. I
couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Huh. I actually thought I was being correct by avoiding
"prescriptive". Ah, well. Touché. :)
Peter
-- ---<>--- --
A house without walls cannot fall.
Help build the world's largest encyclopedia at
Wikipedia.org
-- ---<>--- --