User:Todd Coles/Sandbox

Oklahoma Culture section scratch pad

• Music - Country (Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Reba McIntire, Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Chet Atkins(?))

       - Rock (The Flaming Lips, The All-American Rejects)
       - Folk (Woody Guthrie)
       - Red Dirt

• Sports - University of Oklahoma football (7 national titles), Oklahoma State (red headed stepchild, but strong basketball/wrestling/baseball following)

        - Oklahoma Redhawks (Texas Rangers AA team, OKC), Tulsa Drillers (Colorado Rockies AA team), OKC Blazers (Central Hockey League, 2 championships), Tulsa Oilers (CHL)
        - Hosting of the New Orleans Hornets for 2 years, possibility of relocation of Seattle Supersonics
        - Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa - numerous PGA Championships and US Opens

• Attractions - Western Heritage Museum,
• State/National Parks
• Festivals

Recipe template test

Spaghetti with a realy really long sauce name that takes up the whole damn screen		Yields {{{howmany}}} {{{what}}}
Ingredients   Noodles Sauce Meatballs
Preparation:   boil water sing a song dance a jig EAT IT
Notes: {{{notes}}}
Categories: Pasta, Italian cuisine
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• I just want to point out that it's very early in production ;) --Robert W King 20:02, 18 March 2008 (CDT)

hah, I figured as much, I just wanted to test it out. Take your time man. --Todd Coles 09:55, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

What do you think? --Robert W King 10:30, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

Looks like a pretty good start. The large servings number is good but, for some dishes, spaghetti among them, there can be a distinction about whether it is served as a first course or as a main course and the number will therefore change. Hence, in the example I used for Bolognese sauce on the CZ:Recipes page I specified that under the Number of Servings header or whatever it was. What are your ideas on this? Hayford Peirce 11:33, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

I think we add a section at the end that's simply called Notes, or Preparation Notes, and this is where you could expand on something like that. And as a default, for the Number of Servings header we can make it a rule that you always consider it as a main dish, unless it is obviously a side. --Todd Coles 11:39, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

I can put a course field in there. Would that be appropriate?--Robert W King 11:43, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

I'm not so much in favor of that, but I'll defer to others opinions on that. Looks good so far though. The 2 things I've noticed so far is that 1) if the recipe name is too long, it's going to cause the servings to not line up and 2) Is there anyway to set the preparation field up so that each new step starts on a new line? and of course the servings are appearing fine now. :P --Todd Coles 11:47, 19 March 2008 (CDT)

It's just like normal wiki markup there. You can use # for numbered lists, or just use <br/> at the end of each line. And yeah, I fixed your wagon good on the servings section as soon as I saw it. --Robert W King 11:50, 19 March 2008 (CDT)