[[Noodles]] and [[Pasta]] — How are they related?

THIS HAS BEEN MOVED ON-WIKI, to here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hirsutism/Noodles_and_pasta

Parallel articles

• Noodle and Pasta
• List of noodles and List of pasta
• List of noodle dishes and List of pasta dishes
• Category:Noodles and Category:Pasta
• Category:Noodle dishes and Category:Pasta dishes
• Template:Noodle and Template:Pasta

Things that aren't parallel:

• Category:American pasta dishes, but no corresponding noodle dishes.

Places that (even briefly) start to address the relationship between the two

• [[Noodle]]:
  • "Italian noodles are generally referred to as pasta".
  • § History makes it pretty clear that historians think that Asian noodles predated European pasta. (however it's unclear whether Asian noodles influenced European pasta in any way)
• Pasta § International adaptations

Notable conversations

• Proposed merger of Template:Noodle and Template:Pasta in 2013, with the outcome of 'No consensus'.
• User talk:Enok § Noodles vs pasta
• Talk:Pasta
  • Talk:Pasta
  • Talk:Pasta/Archive 1
  • Talk:Pasta/Archive 2

Non-Wikipedia references

• Reddit | On the origin of noodles and pasta, and the possibility that Asian noodles influenced European pasta