[WikiEN-l] Re: "Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty"

[JAY JG]

>From: <dpbsmith at verizon.net>
>
>In the real world, not all reference books are encyclopedias. That's not 
>just
>because encyclopedias are "paper. "Great Books of the Western World" is not
>the same thing as "The Encyclopaedia Britannica," just as Wikisource is not
>the same thing as Wikipedia.
>
>And "The Encyclopedia of Chicago," "The Star Trek Encyclopedia," and "Oh,
>Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty" are not part of any 
>comprehensive
>encyclopedia either, nor should they be.
>
>Forks are not intrinsically evil; as I've always understood it, the ability
>to produce forks is supposed to be one of the _strengths_ of the GFDL and
>other free licenses.

Amen.

Jay.