There's nothing wrong with having a recipe for filet mignon in the [[filet mignon]] article, or for [[scramble eggs]], etc.
"How to" articles can be neutral and informative.
It's only if we can't manage recipes due to edit wars that we would have to resort to WikiBooks. Suppose Anthere wants to use lots of butter in all her recipes, but Daniel (mav) prefers vegetable oil. To prevent a fight, we could link to Anthere's Guide to French Cuisine and Daniel's Healthfood Cookbook at Wikibooks.
I oppose deleting material from the Wikipedia, just because it fits an identifiable category. The only "fork" I've seen so far that makes sense to me is the dictionaries. There's a clear distinction between "defining a word" and "writing about a subject". But there's nothing wrong with describing the process of stirring eggs so the yolk breaks and mixes the white -- unless you're a segregationist! ;-)
Ed Poor
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There's nothing wrong with having a recipe for filet mignon in the [[filet mignon]] article, or for [[scramble eggs]], etc.
"How to" articles can be neutral and informative.
It's only if we can't manage recipes due to edit wars that we would have to resort to WikiBooks. Suppose Anthere wants to use lots of butter in all her recipes, but Daniel (mav) prefers vegetable oil. To prevent a fight, we could link to Anthere's Guide to French Cuisine and Daniel's Healthfood Cookbook at Wikibooks.
It is inaccurate AND pov to oppose French Cuisine (with butter) to Healthfood Cookbook (with vegetable oil)
French Cuisine also use vegetable oil, animal fat, margarine, creme fraiche...not only butter
Besides, french people suffer less heart stroke and obesity than many other culture, supposingly eating more "healthy" fat.
You made a great mistake in rejecting our charcuterie and foie gras. Even though we all know it is just commercial war (I pick on your Boeing, you pick on my GMO, I pick on you car sellers, you pick on my foie gras, I pick on your Bush, you pick on my Chirac, I pick on your Mac Donald, you pick on my fries), it was a *bad* move. Foie gras is healthy food ! :-)
For a recipee
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
Anthere's Guide to French Healthy and Savory Cuisine
Ed Poor:: I oppose deleting material from the Wikipedia, just because it fits an identifiable category. The only "fork" I've seen so far that makes sense to me is the dictionaries. There's a clear distinction between "defining a word" and "writing about a subject". But there's nothing wrong with describing the process of stirring eggs so the yolk breaks and mixes the white -- unless you're a segregationist! ;-)
Davodd: An argument could be made that since WP is not paper that even dictionary definitions are stubs for a future encyclopedic article on the subject of a word's origin, use patterns and cultural impact. Why should etymology be the only academic discipline not worthy of encyclopedic-type entries in Wikipedia?
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