Talk:Mushroom hunting
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- Rules for mushroom hunting - Wikipedia is not guide to safely. If this article remains there must be a disclaimer at the top of this article. Mintguy 23:23, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- IMO, this article mostly consists of warnings anyway, doesn't it? I don't see it telling you 'Do this'. Morven 00:03, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Seing as how most of the pages about edible mushrooms talk about how to identify and collect them (often with little respect for cautionary notes and similar species - I did my best to fix this in the past few days), I felt that it would be irresponsible to not put corresponding warnings. As an example, the Chanterelle page was talking about how there's no risk of misidentification and things of that sort - I'd like to see whoever wrote that after accidentally eating a Jack-O-Lantern mushroom. Seing as most professional mushroom hunters use a code of safety similar to the one I listed, it only seems responsible.
- As an alternative that I could throw out there, I could make it instead an encylcopedia page about mushroom hunting or mushroom hunters in general. It's quite a serious topic that's been neglected. Rei 19:21, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- An article on mushroom hunting would be good. It could include information about what people do, what experienced people recommend that people do, and what codes of safety are in fact used. However, I don't think articles should tell people what they should or should not do. It contradicts the spirit of the Neutral point of view policy. -- Oliver P. 01:22, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- There's too much good info in this article to just delete it. I agree that a general article on mushroom hunting would be best (and I certainly encourage Rei to work on it), but I'd rather have the current article than nothing at all. --Camembert 01:31, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I changed it to a general purpose enyclopedia page on mushroom hunting, and covered other aspects of mushroom hunting. I also changed it to make it more of a neutral point of view presentation. Is this good? I think its more well rounded. :) Rei 11:48, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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Terminology
You don't "hunt" mushrooms, you go pick them. Besides, unless you like taking risks, there's not much adventure in regular mushroom picking. How about moving the package to "mushroom picking"? David.Monniaux 22:50, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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Wikibooks
This seems more like a manual and not an encyclopedia article. It should be moved to Wikibooks.
