Talk:Gruel

Dutch gruwel
Is there anything in the rules about how to link to a page in another language? Ie. can I add https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergruwel as a footnote or an external reference to the bit about the Dutch 'dish' (for lack of a better word) watergruwel? --Gralgrathor (talk) 12:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

In fiction
So you can basically put anything you want here regardless of whether it is important, well written or even interesting? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.49.43.164 (talk) 04:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure here you got that idea, if anything fiction information should be held to stricter standards, since so many people have a tendency to excise it purely for being what it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 00:23, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Congee
Congee is a rice porridge, not gruel, so I have removed it from the "In fiction" section (where it didn't belong anyway). WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Instead, I'd suggest that a well-linked article Porridge might include gruel and linke congee, polenta yada yada yada: shared history, shared range of contents, shared uses. Only the texture differs: dividing them is not encyclopedic-thinking.--Wetman (talk) 22:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree that congee looks like a porridge, then the photo needs to be taken out because it is confusing to use a photo of a porridge as an example..... jorge1215@aol.com 4/8/2010 but I can't remove it...... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.17.200.2 (talk) 18:49, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the picture. I wish we had a good picture, but it's better to have no picture than a wrong one. The introduction to the Gruel article makes it clear that gruel is "more often drunk than eaten", and the congee in this photo is obviously not drinkable. Moreover, the Congee article states that congee is a type of porridge, and the Porridge article says that porridge is distinct from gruel; therefore at least one of these articles is wrong. &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 02:36, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Tag Removed
There are now references and sources, not a lot of them, but enough that I am removing the Tag. JimCubb (talk) 01:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Old Coot Thought
Despite the article's mentioning that gruel is a watery substance lacking viscosity I have always regarded thicker edibles of a bland nature as also being "gruel" as long as adornments such as fruit chunks, brown sugar and other possible additions were absent. Basically, plain oatmeal with nothing added falls into the general "gruel" category based upon Disgruntled Old Coot Opinion; an opinion that has proven to be uncannily accurate these past multiple decades even when converted to that which is binary and passed through multiple CRAY electronic brains. Yo.Obbop (talk) 17:13, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Formatting of references
I am new to Wikipedia editing and trying to learn about citing sources correctly.

I would be grateful for your feedback on whether I've correctly intrepreted the content below as a repeated citation:

I noticed after making a minor edit to a quoted sentence - "In practice bread was a luxury eaten only in towns" - that this sentence was missing a citation. The proceeding sentence - Roman plebeians "ate the staple gruel of classical times, supplemented by oil, the humbler vegetables and salt fish" - had a citation. Both sentences are cited as originating from the same source.

Is this a standard way of avoiding a repeated citation?

In addition, I would be grateful for your feedback on whether the cited sentence below should begin with '...'

The sentence "In practice bread was a luxury eaten only in towns" seems to have been cited from the middle of a sentence in the text referenced:

Should this cited sentence be formatted in the article with a '...' prelude?

Looking forward to continuing my learning journey in this beautiful community! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifelens (talk • contribs) 11:04, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

photo
photo of something that could not possibly be drunk, though. Drsruli (talk) 05:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)