User talk:Ayuskoto

Welcome...

Hello, Ayuskoto, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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Resources

Here are some lists of state "blue books" and related online resources:

You are going gangbusters without them, but you might find them useful. BiologicalMe (talk) 00:45, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I was actually just using StateSymbols's cited sources after verification.

Be careful, aggregators may pick up rumors. One source says something, another uses it and it might even sneak into a state published coloring book. I think that's the case for beignet. This coloring book from the current Secretary of State doesn't include beignet, nor does this brochure. That's why I like to get as close to official sources as I can. I don't want Wikipedia to be part of the rumor cycle (see WP:CIRCULAR or xkcd for why). BiologicalMe (talk) 19:54, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, oops! I guess I still have a lot to learn. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your help!

But why does a vegetable plant not count as a food? Is it because it refers to the whole plant, and the whole plant is not food?

We're all learning. I've been agonizing over these edge cases. I added the section Talk:List of U.S. state foods#What constitutes food? because even if the states are not uniform in their assignment of symbols, Wikipedia can try to be consistent. I put a bunch of them in notes at the end. Maybe a note on "state vegetable" to the effect that the same statute, RS 49:170.11, also declared the Creole Tomato as state vegetable plant. BiologicalMe (talk) 21:47, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]