Talk:List of Iron Chef America episodes

message: Season 2, 2005, Episode 4 (Morimoto vs. Sanchez), the ingredient on the show was "black bass". Unfortunately, the casual term can confuse people. The link in this article for "black bass" goes to the freshwater sunfish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bass - i.e. "largemout", "smallmouth", "spotted" bass. And that is not the fish used on the show; observing that episode reveals that it really should be black SEA bass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sea_bass. A comparison of the picture at that link as well as other Google images show that that's the actual fish used in the show. 
I want to change the link, but as per the editing standard, I have no direct reference coming out and saying that the episode used black sea bass. I'm relying on 1. My own personal experience as a fisherman, and 2. Comparison of images on the internet. How would this be referenced? Or should the link just be changed without further work and worry?
Aldctjoc (talk) 05:09, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You're not doing anything different that whoever originally set up the link did, so I'd go ahead and make the change.  I would be careful to leave an explanatory edit summary to make your rationale clear, but I doubt there will be much fuss.  --Drmargi (talk) 08:20, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd proceed with caution, Aldctjoc. Here's some general wikipedia advice from someone who's used the site since the early 00s. On many wikipedia pages there is one editor who has put in a lot of work on that page, and does not want anything happening to it that he or she does not agree with. On any given wikipedia page, you can scope that possibility out for yourself simply by looking at the revision history of the page, the talk page, the talk page archive if it exists, and the revision history of the talk page. Have fun! :-)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.77.205.66 (talk) 19:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in secret ingredient link; how do we actually reference this? 

message: First, I would like to note a message I received from Dr. Margi:
Drmargi thanked you for your edit on Iron Chef America.  "→‎Iron Chef statistics: Fixed AG's specialty to something which actually exists, adjusted Zakarian's to be more accurate (he referes to himself as a French chef repeatedly on NIC and ICA"
I've no idea why she "thanked" me, since she then proceeded to revert my edit. I can do without the snide disingenuous faux-thanks, thank you.
However, I am not really here to to discuss backhanded thank-yous but Chef Alex Guarnaschelli's specialty. Whoever put "American market garden" as the specialty is simply incorrect. And it comes from no, to my knowledge, verifiable source. Margi reverted my edit on the basis of Chef G's ICA Bio. 
Let us look at the bio, then: http://www.foodnetwork.com/chefs/alexandra-guarnaschelli/index.html
Those who care to read it will note that nowhere in it is the phrase "American market garden" used. The most the bio says is that her cuisine, at one of her her two restaurants, is "eclectic American and green market-inspired." Someone simply jumbled two of those words and added a third completely out of the aether. You will note, nowhere on the page at all is the word "garden" even used.
In addition, "market" is not a descriptor of a cuisine specialty. Farmer's market, the article to which it was hyperlinked, or otherwise. A farmer's market is simply a place to purchase ingredients. It is akin to saying one's cuisine specialty is convenience store.
There is a somewhat consistent format to the page, though having some chefs be "American" and others "New American" and yet others "Modern American" etc when they all mean the same thing is a bit confusing, and adding yet another, an incorrect one based on one Wikipedian's personal interpretation / rearranging of some words, certainly doesn't make the page any better. Were we simply to refer to AG as American it would be absolutely accurate and unarguable. Until someone provides some kind of attribution for "American market garden" (which I would still argue is incorrect, as neither "market" nor "garden" are cuisine styles) we should avoid edit warring on this one. "American" or "Modern American" everyone can agree is correct, yes? A Screaming Comes Across The Sky (talk) 15:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guarnaschelli's Specialty 

message: Can it be "Win-lose-draw"? OccultZone (talk) 06:59, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Win-Loss? 

message: I see, after looking through the Talk Archives, that this is not the first time this has happened, but the end-note numbering is all kinds of crazy. The end-note reference shown at the text level, for most of the page, is 10 higher than the end-note it is referencing at the end of each "season" section. But then when you get down to season 13, they match again, although the text level numbers overlap some of the numbers from above it. Is there no way this can be done automatically, so someone doesn't have to continuously fix it manually? →ClarkCTTalk @ 03:42, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  End-Note numbering