h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: GT's Brill Pasta - A80471739
Author: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA - U13926421

I think that this is done and dusted.

It makes a smashing meal!

Hey GT,

I'm afraid this isn't quite done and dusted...

While recipes are found in the EG, there are a few <./>HouseRules</.> issues that need clearing up (particularly the first person bits at the beginning) and it needs formatting rather than being in plain text.

Other than that it sounds yummy!

Wait... where I put <./>HouseRules</.> I actually meant Writing-Guidelines

Changed style to guide ML

THat better?

Oh, and have changed the first person thing too!!


GT

The entry should probably be about Bacon and Tomato Pasta - we don't tend to have recipes branded with Researchers' names.

How about

Bacon And Tomato Pasta GT

GT's name will still be on the entry - there'll be no question who wrote it.

It will make the entry stand out a little more

Title amended on the page!



GT

Hi GT


Just a couple of comments:


Your opening paragraph needs to set the scene a little. Maybe explain the sort of evening that this might make a good supper for? ie cosy supper for two without too much need for complicated ingredients - not too much shopping etc? I sort of imagine that you could very well make this dish from the contents of a normal refrigerator and store cupboard. So, maybe it would be one of those stand-by recipes that it is really useful to have?

Apart from that, (as was mentioned when the title change was suggested) you really need to de-personalise the wording in the Entry.


I also think that if you read through the instructions in the recipe (which I think are very clear )
that you could improve the sentence structure a little more by adding the word [the] before a lot of the words.



eg
Chop up bacon rashers into 1 - 2 cm squares, roughly dice onion


-----> Chop up [the] bacon rashers into 1-2 cm squares [and] roughly dice [the] onion.

I hope this makes sense? If not, just ask!




Lanzababy

Lanza!

Amendments made, over to you!



(Try it yourself!!!!)



GT

The only problems I have with this are:

1. I think the phrase "handfuls of pasta" is a bit vague. I&#39;d recommend 100g of pasta per person. Some people would like a little bit less than this.

2. It would have been better if you had left this in Plain Text. It&#39;s easier for a sub-editor to put something into GuideML than to remove all those BR tags and replace them with approved GuideML. That&#39;s not your problem, though, it is the problem of the scout who told you it had to be in GuideML.

Um, Gnomon, as the Scout that told GT that (having been out of the game for a long while and misremembering the Guidelines at the time of posting) I&#39;m not sure how it&#39;s my "problem" given that I can&#39;t edit the entry and GT can just convert it back to plain text.

Well, it's really the sub-editor's problem, as I would not expect the author to have to change it back after being told to change it in the first place.

Adjusted pasta measurement to read 'about 100 Grammes per person, Gnomon. That better?



GT

Well, I'd say grams rather than grammes. The word grammes is so 1960s!

!

I'll let the Eds decide on that one!!!



GT

Rather !




GT

Hi GT - Gnomon is correct about the gram/gramme thing.

The more little edits you can do by yourself the better for the sub-editor.

OK Lanza!


Consider it done!!



GT