It's clearly Garry's call as to whether or not the entire thread should be deleted, but from a detached perspective I would prefer that it remain. Perhaps because a great deal of my work these days involves trying to piece together data from tiny fragments of disparate manuscripts, I perhaps recognise more than some the importance of never losing something, no matter how insignificant or unimportant it might seem at the time. Only 100 years ago, ancient papyri were still being burned because, when burned, they gave off a nice smell; in the 13th century, a scribe, needing parchment on which to work, decided to write his text on what is now called the Archimedes Palimpsest, thereby obliterating texts that were written several centuries earlier still. These erased texts include two treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The Method and Stomachion. So for me, information, no matter how wrong, is always important. I vote for keeping Garry's thread, and for us all (but especially George and Stew) to identify some way in which threads can be assigned rankings, so that someone wanting (for example) a thread describing how to make a Chicken Madras from scratch can (if he or she so chooses) start at the "Chicken Madras from Scratch" thread with the highest ranking, needing to consider other, lower-ranked, threads only if he or she does not like the results that he or she achieves using the highest ranked.
** Phil.
Topic: Chicken Madras from scratch ( 21,101 )
