[Wikipedia-l] Re: Recipe

Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski fallout at lexx.eu.org
Fri Jan 21 07:43:56 UTC 2005


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.

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Ausir
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