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Water with Rice

With Basmati rice, you should really only use 1.25 to 1.5 the amount of liquid to rice. Other rices can take more water, but Basmati will mush up with too much :)

Tommr 19:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Chef!

As much as I love seeing the quotations, they actually aren't appropriate content for the article. Some of the content can be thought of as objectionable as well the style of reference is inappropriate for an academic article. We might be able to think of a different way of incorporating them into the article, but as they are right now they seem inappropriate.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 06:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I was going to write back to you actually and say it wasn't so much the quotes, but the certain ones that people might find offensive such as when Gostuv (I forget how to spell his name) talking about her legs and the continued comment. I think otherwise the quotes are fine actually looking at it again because it gives context to the humor of the show and those lines are some of the ones the show is well known for. I have actually used to quote (I don't recall it exactly now) "Please go off to the place called, done cooking."--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 02:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Monty Hall problem

Hi - I'm not sure you're aware that that this article is currently subject to a featured article review - mostly on the grounds that it is not appropriately referenced. The text you're adding doesn't help in this regard, in fact, since it's not referenced actually hurts (the existing "Combining doors" section is one of the sections explicitly mentioned that is not referenced). Do you have a reference for this particular explanation, or is this simply the one you personally find most intuitive? If the former, please add the reference. If the latter, please understand that how you comprehend this problem is of no particular significance. Wikipedia's featured articles must exemplify the criteria at WP:FACR, which includes verifiability against reliable sources. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to explain. Not irrelevant is that I work in a certain Protocols Division (the same one that recently got fined $1.35 billion by the EU. That wasn't my particular fault - it was the poor, desperate, suicidal sod in the next cubicle :-), so I am fairly well-acquainted with the need to conform to strict, established standards and provide references.

The problem I have with your reversions is that I was adding to the section entitled "Aids to Understanding," which might reasonably be thought of as a looser section that explains the problem in clear, simple terms to laypeople who come to Wikipedia in hope that it will help them understand the world.

I was aware that I was duplicating the argument of the "Combining Doors" section. That section contains 236 words in 9 rather dense sentences that, to a casual reader, seem to be continuing the mathematical arguments given above. Noticing that it provided no references, I seriously considered replacing it with my 112 rather plain words in three sentences, and adding appropriate references to articles relevant to the “always switch” strategy, but thought that might be considered impolite.

I tested my wording with our local, annoying mathematician, using three Dixie cups and a nickel. He immediately clutched his head, then stole my Dixie cups (he also tried to get the nickel, but I’m Scottish :-)

So, advice please? Somewhat against my will, my job in life has become explaining things clearly to a given audience. The Wikipedia audience is … well, everyone, not just math geeks like myself and perhaps you. I think I did a good job of explaining the strategy clearly to anyone, without resorting to Bayesian analysis (good grief!).

I was happy to leave it in the “Aids to understanding” section, but would you have a problem if I instead deleted the entire “Combining Doors” section and replaced it with my three sentences, with appropriate references? (Even if you don't, I'm sure I'd hear from the people I'd just deleted.)

Thank you for your attention. OutRIAAge (talk) 06:05, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it's a good idea to add this text without a reliable source that shows the restated problem is equivalent to the original one (not just a source that says you should always switch). In response to the review I've been looking for sources for various sections of the article. I haven't really found anything I'd consider suitable (e.g. a book or an academic paper) for the "Combining doors" section. If you know of one, that'd be great. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion

Sorry, but you're wrong - it's "But you never quite learned the song, she sang..." Not only do various sources confirm it - here, here, here, etc. etc. - it's also obvious from listening to the song itself. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:55, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

No problem! Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:44, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

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