I think that the wikipedia should allow dictionary articles (actually encyclopedic dictionary articles), but mark them as such and have different policies for them.
On 22/12/2010, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: >> I provided both versions of the XML if you want to muck around with >> that. I don't think there's much historical value in the control >> characters. > > Probably not. I was reminded again today that XML 1.1 (for a reason > I'm still not quite sure of) never really gained all that widespread > of support. > >> Speaking of historical value, I found the argument between Lars >> Aronsson and Larry Sanger, which caused Lars to quit and found >> susning.nu. It happened on May 21. >> >> Lars had just spent several days writing dictionary-like articles, and >> he wrote [[Short words]] to organise the effort. At 12:48, Larry >> complained about this on [[LA2]], and at 12:53, he created [[Wikipedia >> is not a dictionary]], which was clearly an attack on what Lars was >> doing. At 12:54, Lars announced that he was leaving, as a comment on >> [[Wikipedia is not a dictionary]]. There were several responses. >> >> On July 24, Larry erased all the comments from [[Wikipedia is not a >> dictionary]], and on July 28, he rewrote the original text, toning >> down the language. Before I found this backup, the earliest version we >> had of this policy page was from August 17. > > Interesting. I came to accept the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" > guideline/policy pretty soon after reading that page - and much to my > dismay I find it to be fairly widely ignored when it comes to > etymology, usage, and profanity. I'm interested in seeing what the > original and/or newly rewritten language had to say about it. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l