Thread:IronJaw333/@comment-27219153-20181029201725/@comment-27219153-20181030174504

There is source code that you can't see in the visual editor. So yes, you did delete a bunch of recipes.

For future reference, the  pages are used to store the code for recipes. This is done to avoid duplicate recipes.

Why are duplicate recipes bad? Well, most recipes have two or three pages where they are used on the wiki. If an update changes recipes then, we only have to change the one page where the recipe is stored rather than two or three pages. If we had to change multiple pages, one or more would likely be forgotten and that page would then provide outdated information that conflicts with the page that had been updated.

In addition to avoiding duplicate recipes, it also allows us to easily put the recipe anywhere on the wiki where it is needed and it will be updated automatically if the code for it is changed. For example, lets say a user posts a comment on a page asking how to craft a gondor sword. I can type and it will go to the Sword/Recipes page and fetch the code for the recipe marked gondor which will then be displayed like this: