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Semi-protected edit request on 23 July 2023

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The Wikipedia article on Cascatelli pasta might be nice to mention in this main article, as it is a modern shape (2019) specifically designed to have certain performance characteristics. It could go in the Science section, for example. Mjtheisenusa (talk) 15:49, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - the format for proposing a change in the article is to give "a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected." Zefr (talk) 18:26, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source 22 seems unreliable

Inmamaskitchen.org (original website, see https://web.archive.org/web/20120331135946/http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_ART/pasta/historypasta.html for archived website) may not be a source that is reliable (it doesnt seem to have any sources itself), if possible someone should find a different source for this information if at all possible (Maybe citation needed may be better?) Rocksok (talk) 17:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Guinness World Record

I would like to add info about the longest "sfoglia" (fresh egg pasta) ever made but I cannot edit the page. Adry0104 (talk) 11:20, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adry0104: in my opinion, it isn't necessary to add this record. JacktheBrown (talk) 05:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with JackkBrown. This is a trivial record not worth mentioning on Wikipedia. Someone could easily build a machine that could produce a strand of pasta of unlimited length. Who cares? Cullen328 (talk) 06:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok! Adry0104 (talk) 14:29, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noidles

Please add a “see also: noodles” link to this article.

Reason: pasta seems to be a subtype of noodles. For a reader interested in the food type in general but not exclusively the Italian variety this cross-reference would make sense. 2A02:2121:61E:7387:D91F:52C9:6E0E:27DF (talk) 08:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

The question of whether pasta is a subtype of noodles has been discussed extensively here - see the archive. That said, I would object to a 'see also' link, since the two subjects are obviously related. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:20, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Same vibes as aluminium vs aluminum :P Sirocco745 (talk) 09:21, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think there are regional variations in how the words are used. For me, a noodle is a long stringy thing made of dough. Spaghetti is probably a type of noodle, but I don't think lasagne would qualify. Noodles are one of the things that you can make with pasta, and pasta is one of the things that you can make noodles out of - they're intimately connected, but one isn't a sub-type of the other. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:59, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Noodles and pasta are actually two very different things": [1]. Other sources: [2]; [3]; [4]; [5]; [6]; [7]; [8]; [9]. JacktheBrown (talk) 13:42, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nah. Diorite and souffle are two very different things. Noodles and pasta are two very closely related things, so closely related that a great many people conflate them, but I agree with you that they aren't quite the same thing, and one is not a subset of the other. Girth Summit _(blether) 00:55, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]