Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
MS> Sorry, playing the ignorant American for a bit there. But this just MS> illustrates how woefully undercovered cooking topics are, along with MS> almost all other traditionally "domestic" subjects, which is partly why MS> we're having this whole debate over recipes for the nth time now. If we MS> had decent encyclopedia articles about these things, which is almost MS> never the case, then it would be less of an issue. I think a lot of the MS> visceral objection to recipes is based on the fact that they frequently MS> overwhelm the remaining content of the article, especially if the MS> instructions are given in significant detail. MS> --Michael Snow
Well, I wouldn't have anything against recipes in Wikipedia - except that we have Wikibooks now, which is far more suited for that kind of information.
I am amazed about the amount of words that has been used on this subject. To me a few things stand out.
*There are inclusionists and deletionists. * Many arguments about why we should NOT have arguments do not cut it as we have plenty of room. Hard disks are cheap nowadays. *The importance of food is culturally indicated, therefore people who do not get "it", are not likely to get "it", this makes the discussion pointless. *Spain has an excellent modus vivendi and I would really urge people to adopt it so that we can move on. In essence no recipies on their own, only in combination with a whole article. *The idea that there is a consensus for deleting recipies has been proven a fallacy, the only arguments to the contrary I can think of are formalistic.Wiki is not much on formality.
The suggestion of using wikibooks has some merits except that we do not have our interproject links yet. Without these we will get the old quarrel of no outside references again. My personal opinion is that you want at least one recipy that is typical for the dish. Variations can then be in wikibooks.
Thanks, GerardM