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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>No, a few people discussed it on the how
to talk page. Most people have never shown much of an interest in how to type
article, so we just decided amongst ourselves really. It was decided that the
recipes should be moved first, we’d worry about the other stuff later. Then
people started complaining that stuff was being deleted, so then every recipe
started going through VfD. In the meantime people still put How tos on VfD
claiming they are unencylopedic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As a contributor of lot’s of How to
pages my own opinion is that I don’t care if it’s wikipedia or
wikibooks, I just want them somewhere, and I don’t want people adding VfD
notes on them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Daniel P.B.Smith [mailto:dpbsmith@verizon.net]
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 11 May 2004 11:53<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> daniwo59@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> wikien-l@Wikipedia.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [WikiEN-l] Historian:
origin of apparent "policy" re recipes andhow-tos?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>NOT a rhetorical question. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've been very puzzled by an apparent consensus or
policy--one with which I obviously do not agree--that recipes in particular,
and didactic or "how-to" articles in general, do not belong in
Wikipedia. I can give cogent-to-me reasons for not agreeing with this. But I
don't want to discuss that now. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here's what I want to know. Is this an example of a
difficult, carefully-threshed-out consensus that newer Wikipedians, having not
participated in that consensus, may be unaware of? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>(And if so why isn't it documented on any of the
policy pages I've been able to find?) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>-- </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Daniel P. B. Smith,
dpbsmith@verizon.net alternate: dpbsmith@alum.mit.edu </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>"Elinor Goulding Smith's
Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print! </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Sample chapter at
http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Buy it at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403314063/ </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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