[WikiEN-l] Re: Historian: origin of apparent "policy" re recipes and how-tos?

Tue May 11 18:16:06 UTC 2004

Imran Ghory wrote:

>On Tue, 11 May 2004, Anthere wrote:
>
>>~You miss the point. Many people do consider many recipees are
>>encyclopedic, as some have cultural value.
>>
>The central basis on which I argue on vfd when these things come up is
>that wikipedia should be descriptive not prescriptive. Instructive works
>come under the remit of wikibooks so that is where they should go.
>
>So a description of how a food is made is encyclopedic, but instructions
>on how to make that food are not encyclopedic.
>
The descriptive/prescriptive distinction is very narrow in this case.  I 
prefer to avoid a pompous definition of what is encyclopedic.

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