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Should pages detailing what a food mentioned in the book is really needed? What food a character eats or mentions is not really wikia material. There is a page on here about a bacon sandwich, including what it is, where the characters brought it and how much it was. There is also one telling us what a BLT sandwich is. Do people really care about this? Wouldn't they already know? If they had to look it up, they would just use google. They wouldn't look through the wikia. It's just a few simple pointless lines about a piece of food. The place the sandwich was brought should have it's own place since it is a place the characters visited but do we need need to go as far as to give a piece of food it's own page? Couldn't the piece of food which was brought just be mentioned on the page of the shop? Unless there was some magical thing about it, we don't really need everyday, ordinary food to have their own pages. --EmilyMills22 (talk) 21:37, June 2 2016 (UTC)
- The whole point of a Wiki is to provide readers with as much information as possible, regardless of whether the page is visited or not. If in the next ten years, one person visits this page, then it was worth it wasn't it. There's no harm in having extra pages like this. ArrestoMomentum | talk 21:41, June 2, 2016 (UTC)
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Why does the article name have hyphens ("-") in between each word? It's not spelled that way in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. - Kates39 (talk) 12:09, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, so Starstuff renamed the article citing "grammatical" reasons, which I don't personally think is good enough. I mainly revisit the series via audio, so I'll be the first one to admit that spelling and capitalization are my weak point, as I virtually wouldn't be able to tell what the canon spelling is from audio alone. In the occasions where I do have my ebooks around, I think I have in fact spotted inconsistencies within canon (my ebooks are UK editions, so it's not the "oh, US matters less" thing), but I stress, I could be absolutely wrong for the following statements:
- For Steak and kidney pudding and Steak and kidney pie, I think one of them actually used "-"? When checking just now, according to the article (which still has the potential to be incorrect), it seems to be the former, but the title was changed due to "consistency" reasons, again, not exactly ideal imo.
- I also remember there's ice cream with the flavor that's "strawberry and peanut butter" and we don't seem to have a page for it, no idea if there are "-" involved:
- On Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour's page it's written as "strawberry-and-peanut-butter ice cream" (not ruling out written this way due to "grammatical" reasons)
- On Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans's page, as a flavour, it's written as "Strawberry and Peanut-Butter Ice-Cream" (this one has the backup of w:c:pottermore:A Bertie Bott's Strawberry and Peanut-Butter Ice-Cream-Flavoured Bean)
- For the latter, the "-" aren't even used in between different subject, so it's not exactly the same situation.
- I know it'd look like I went off topic. My point is, I think people are uncertain with when to use "-". If it's spelled without "-" in canon, there's no reason to add it just because it's deemed more grammatically correct? Do you think we should just place {{SicTitle}} on every article that had "and" in their title but without "-", just to avoid confusion? At the very least an editor's note that, "hey, this is how it's spelled in the UK edition, please don't change it"?
- (Sorry that my reply wasn't direct, it's really because I think this may not be an isolated incident, might as well discuss the general percussion.) --Sammm✦✧(talk) 01:18, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
- I just checked the book again. The book just says Ron and Harry had a very large plate of sandwiches and that Ron had a "chicken and ham". It doesn't put the word "sandwich" with it, so that's probably why it doesn't have a hypen. However, it does put a hypen in "strawberry and peanut-butter ice-creams". It's the proper way to spell it. I don't know what happened with steak and kidney pie and pudding. It's not hypenated in the book so far that I've found? It's confusing.
- So I don't know how you feel about it now. I think putting {{SicTitle}} and taking "-" out sounds like the best thing to do if the book doesn't put a hypen. Because the wiki does name things the same way the books do, even when the book spells it wrong. Or does the fact that the book doesn't say "sandwich" count toward putting a hypen? - Kates39 (talk) 12:23, 9 November 2021 (UTC)