Talk:Biscuit

message: Can someone please explain to me how the UK "biscuit" takes precedence over the American one, which has been segregated to Biscuit_(bread)? One of these countries has five times the population of the other (and roughly that many English speakers), exports a significantly larger number of products, and actually started the article (as well as the site it is on).
This is going to be confusing for the three hundred million other people who may someday type "biscuit" into the search box and get presented with an article about afternoon tea pairings. 98.19.243.198 (talk) 19:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: But this article isn't about "afternoon tea" biscuits, it's about the history of the word and covers both UK and US meanings. --McGeddon (talk) 19:17, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The current Biscuit page is a weird article that's the product of an odd sort of armistice. Most of its content is about the International English sense of "biscuit", since the other meaning is covered in depth at Biscuit (bread). But because of the regional split, we've left in a lot of the content about the latter, and done our best to explain the distinction. Most of the recent discussion about this effort is above, in #Two articles?, and I invite the anonymous original poster to join that discussion once they have read through the prior comments. To directly speak to the poster's points: Although Wikimedia is headquartered in the United States, the intended audience for its projects, including English Wikipedia, is the entire world, and that means writing in a way that is as broad as that audience. There are approximately 942 million English speakers in the world (taking L1 and L2 together). About 278 million of these speak North American English (combining totals from American English and Canadian English, and even then, not all Canadians use "biscuit" in that way). That leaves at least 664 million people, distributed around the world (i.e. 70% of the global English-speaking world), for whom a "biscuit" is not a type of quick bread. That there are more internet users in North America means that Wikipedia often exhibits systemic bias, which we try to counter as we're able. So in that spirit, and even as an American myself, I think it's preferable to consider the American sense of the word to be secondary. Ibadibam (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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message: A merge discussion related to this topic is underway at . Ibadibam (talk) 06:24, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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message: An image in the wiki shows Biscuits from Ghana. However, most of those biscuits are found almost worldwide. They do not belong only to Ghana. For example, that image has biscuits which exist in India as well, like Rusk, GoodDay, Hodlicks, as well as a cup of chai. SunnyandBunny 21 (talk) 05:49, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biscuits of Ghana? 

message: Question from an Italian: if "biscuit" (British English) and "cookie" (American English) are, practically, the same thing, why are there two different pages, cookie and this one (biscuit)? JacktheBrown (talk) 22:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Because if there were only one article, it would be at biscuit (as cookies are a type of bikkie), thereby the American usage would not get its own article. And we can't have that, can we? Local Potentate (talk) 10:19, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Biscuit" and "cookie"