[Wikipedia-l] Recipes

Thu Jan 20 05:50:47 UTC 2005

I agree with Sabine, Giuseppe Guillaume, Sj, & al.: Recipes do belong in 
Wikipedia -- they are excellent sources of cultural information. The 
appropriate level of detail for the recipe may of course vary between 
articles: A recipe for "pinnekjøt(t)" (typical of (mostly) one region of 
Norway) is relatively easy to write down, and the variants are similar 
enough to each other that one can keep it short and clear. A recipe for 
"haroset" (typical of almost all Jewish cultures) is obviously going to be 
a much harder task with all its variety...  If someone just enters a 
recipe, the challenge is to expand the article to contain something more 
than that -- not to take away the important cultural information that has 
been offered in the form of that recipe. In my not-so-humble opinion, that 
is... :)

-Olve

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Olve Utne
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