Imran Ghory wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Anthere wrote:
~You miss the point. Many people do consider many recipees are encyclopedic, as some have cultural value.
The central basis on which I argue on vfd when these things come up is that wikipedia should be descriptive not prescriptive. Instructive works come under the remit of wikibooks so that is where they should go.
So a description of how a food is made is encyclopedic, but instructions on how to make that food are not encyclopedic.
The descriptive/prescriptive distinction is very narrow in this case. I prefer to avoid a pompous definition of what is encyclopedic.
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