[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 55, Issue 62

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 13:45:25 UTC 2008


2008/10/22 Mike.lifeguard <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm>:
> Delphine wrote:

>>1) The slogan "Wikipedia is a non-profit" sounds weird to me...

> Well, Wikipedia itself isn't a nonprofit, the Foundation is. But "is
> nonprofit" and "is a nonprofit" are both acceptable in English (1st is
> an adjective, 2nd is a noun) so I don't see an issue with those words.


"is nonprofit" would be more strictly accurate.


- d.



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