Alias pasta -> noodles

BUR #8267 has been rejected.

create alias pasta -> noodles

Pasta are just Italian noodles. The noodles wiki states that "popular types of noodles include spaghetti" while the pasta wiki says it is an "umbrella tag for any type of noodles".

Noodles are by definition stretched like spaghetti but pasta can have many other shapes. This seems like a case of a bad wiki.

I see. I didn't know noodles only refers to the stretched type in English. Should spaghetti then imply noodles in addition to pasta?

The bulk update request #8267 (forum #202368) has been rejected by @Nameless_Contributor.

ion288 said:

This seems like a case of a bad wiki.

Agreed. Neither tag is an umbrella tag for the other; there are types of noodles that aren't pasta (e.g. shirataki) and there are types of pasta that aren't noodles (e.g. ravioli). The wiki's author seems to be trying to create some sort of hierarchy between the two foods just because they happen to have some overlap, and that never works.