Talk:Ba-wan

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Ba-wan article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Food and drink Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Taiwan Low‑importance

	Taiwan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Taiwan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Taiwan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TaiwanWikipedia:WikiProject TaiwanTemplate:WikiProject TaiwanTaiwan articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Edit on circle vs. sphere[edit]

Ba-wan in this case is a meat sphere or meat ball. While the character for circle and sphere are the same, in this case, the meaning is sphere and not circle. The food itself is spherical. A similar case where the character for "circle" is used in the name of a food, is tang-yuan's, which are little spherical objects that are glutenous and can be sweet or salty.

Trad. Simp. Pinyin English 圓圆 yuán circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (Yuan); tactful; to justify ...........

Also as far as tags go, I think it makes more sense to link the object to where it originated from, unless there are significant changes in the food that the other country added that makes that food something different now, or unless it's like the most popular food there or something odd. It doesn't make sense to link that food to a country just because it is found there somewhat....if we did that, wouldn't every country have links to quesadillas? What's the point in separate cuisine sections for each country, if we list everything that can possibly be found there, in every country's cuisine page? It seems to make more sense to link only what is unique about that country, or what foods originated from that country, or something that country specializes in. For example, I would not link Domino's Pizza in the Taiwan section...but I might link Pacman Pizza, because it's curry pizza that's got pineapple and is weird and a unique thing in Taiwan, though the original pizza was from Italy. Kelidimari (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject China[edit]

I removed the WPCHINA tag because the Ba-wan originated in Taiwan.--Jerrch 23:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that's the right thing to do since other cultures have also adopted bawan as part of their cuisine. WP tagging should not be limited to the "origins" of an item. Sjschen (talk) 14:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Food and drink Tagging[edit]

This article talk page was automatically added with {{WikiProject Food and drink}} banner as it falls under Category:Food or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. The bot was instructed to tagg these articles upon consenus from WikiProject Food and drink. You can find the related request for tagging here . If you have concerns , please inform on the project talk page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 10:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]