[Wikipedia-l] culture - recipes and other stuff

Sat Jan 22 20:45:30 UTC 2005

Perhaps. I haven't entirely made up my mind on that.

But I do definitely think that we should have no articles consisting
solely of a recipe.

Mark

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:46:20 -0800, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:40:51 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But the thing with a recipie is that there are infinite possibilities,
> > and different people make it different ways. As I said before, we
> > should describe what makes it what it is and how it is made, but be
> > vague enough that we include every possibility for that food. This
> > isn't a recipie.
> 
> On the other hand, we can ILLUSTRATE with sample recipes, just as we
> can illustrate with sample photographs.  Sometimes vagueness is too
> vague; sometimes what is needed is a specific as an example.  So long
> as we note that variations do exist and this is just an example, we're
> fine.  Just as we illustrate, say, an article on Persian cats with a
> picture of a specific cat; we do have to point out the possible
> variations and that this is just an example, not the definition.
> 
> -Matt (User:Morven)
>