Talk:Candied yams

Is there a Wikipedia isn't a Recipe Book page? I'm not sure if this is a Wikipedia-style article. - Bamos 01:48, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I ran across the page in the "needs work" section. So I edited it to make it more wiki'ish partially as a sandbox experience. Malloc 12:19, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Me too. The info about yams belongs better in the yam page, so I moved it there. Unless candied yams have some historical/cultural significance I don't know about (which could be the case), the recipe should be moved out of wikipedia and into the wikicookbook. FreplySpang 18:19, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well, "candied yams" are a very American phenomenon, and it's significant because much of the time (but not always) what is called candied yams are actually sweet potatoes. Moving this info to the page on yam creates imbalance in the article (since, in the global scheme of things, American "candied yams" are trivial, but now take up 1/3 of the article. And since they are not actually yam (for the most part) one wonders if that info belongs there at all. I'm not arguing to keep this page as it is - there is duplicate info here about yam - but since candied yams are usually not yam, then maybe it should not be on the yam page. Guettarda 18:29, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree, "candied yams" are not all that important to a discussion on yams. There was a lot of info here on true yams, though. And the U.S. practice of calling sweet potatoes "yams" is worth at least a mention on the yam page. Whether or not this practice deserves as much space as it got is debatable, but we can talk about it in Talk:Yam.

Other than the info about Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes, I didn't put anything about "candied yams" in the yam page.

FreplySpang 20:34, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I copied this over into a recipe at Wikibooks. GrafixWiki 20:51, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Great! I didn't know how to do that.FreplySpang 21:51, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I replaced the Candied yams article with a redirect to the Yam article, and placed a link to the recipe on Wikibooks on the Yam article. --GrafixWiki 19:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)