Ray Saintonge wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
But recipes, well, there's an awful lot of them. And I can just imagine the NPOV fights on them. (Chile with or without beans? Chocolate chip cookies with nuts? White or dark meat chicken? Does a dash of cumin improve the dish?) And they're not something that most people would think to go to an encyclopedia about.
This argument is pure speculation. Can you give examples of where it in fact has happened? Any recipe can easily accomodate notes about hoe it can be varied.
See [[Talk:Paella]] for an example. The recipe itself was moved to Wikibooks because there was too much argument about what could and couldn't go into paella. The current [[Paella]] article discusses the kinds of ingredients that can go in paella and who thinks what about those different ingredients. It also discusses the traditional cooking method and other related info, but there is no recipe. The recipe on Wikibooks is linked to.
Hopefully, after reading the [[Paella]] article, the reader would understand the issues around the ingredients and upon encountering a recipe for paella, would be able to identify what kind of paella it was. To include recipes for all the different types of paella and the minute variations in choices and quantities of ingredients, not to mention cooking times would frankly be a waste a space. The exact quantity of rice that goes into a paella for 4 is not really encyclopedic.
Let the encyclopedia discuss the dish; let the WikiBooks Cookbook provide the recipes.
- David