User talk:Cumin the barbarian

Hi, welcome to Recipes Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Brown Gravy page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- MtaÄ (Talk) 17:20, 3 June 2009

Fabulous user name
Love the name. :-) Jimbo Wales 20:58, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Categorytree parser function
Nifty function, but it would not be good to use it for the larger categories, like say Category:Chicken Recipes, but thanks for pointing it out. And the reason i edit her a lot is that it's my job :D ... i've been tasked with cleaning up this wiki and have been at that particular task for over a year now. Glad to have you aboard! — Game widow (talk) 23:44, March 1, 2011 (UTC)

Bug report
I'd be happy to make the bug report for you. But first, a question (or two), what browser do you use ? on which operating system? and finally, (and this is my personal bias, so feel free to ignore) why on earth would you use the wysiwyg editor? — Game widow (talk) 12:01, March 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * It's now in our ticket queue (case #3270). If you use Firefox and are willing to just use the plain text editor, i can provide you with a greasemonkey script that greatly speeds up formatting recipes, just let me know — Game widow (talk) 13:04, March 2, 2011 (UTC)

I just find the wysiwyg editors beyond irritating, so i always switch them off :D ... carry on! — Game widow (talk) 18:25, March 2, 2011 (UTC)

Recipe copyright and external links
I have not personally researched this, but i was told that recipes cannot be copyrighted. However, if the text is a wholesale / word-for-word copy of another, then i'd agree that it's not right, but all we have to do is change it up a bit and things are fine again. so for this mangia mangia one, i'd change the title to something more descriptive of what the recipe is actually about, add an explicit section about what cookbook it does come from and that it was found in the Tuscon Citizen and i think that would be ok.

''U.S. copyright law addresses recipes, but what holds sway can be called either ethics or etiquette. Cooking is not considered inventing; rather, it evolves. Copyright law specifies that "substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions," such as a cookbook, can be copyrighted but that a mere list of ingredients cannot receive that protection.'' (from The Washington Post) and there's also this.

So i see no real reason for a notice, unless the notice also states that the recipe will be rewritten so as to not be a direct copy and that the source will be added.

As for the external links, i'm not entirely sure what you mean. Wikia (and not me personally) decided to change the basic css and make all links, internal and external, appear the same way. If that is what you mean, then it's intentional, if not, then i'm afraid i'll need a different explanation to be able to see your point and make your case to the tech team. — Game widow (talk) 11:51, March 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah I see what you mean, and i have no idea right now why the little link icon would not show up in that template, but i'd be happy to look into it ... maybe it is something the techs would want to fix :D (though what they choose to address or not is often a mystery to me) — Game widow (talk) 14:12, March 5, 2011 (UTC)