--- Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/25/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
In general, I try to pretend that this very broken
"policy" doesn't
exist. When someone can come up with a reasonable
policy that can
distinguish between dictionary entries and
encyclopaedia entries,
without using the self-referential terms
"dictionary definition" or
"encyclopaedic", then perhaps it will serve some
purpose.
Oh, it exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary
Interesting.
Steve
Basically, according to "Wikipedia is not a dictionary", Wikipedia articles "are about the people, concepts, places, events, and things that their titles denote". Wiktionary articles "are about the actual words or idioms in their title".
In other words, according to this policy, we aren't supposed to have any articles about words at all. Except, oops, we have thousands, including one featured article.
As I've said, our policies/practices on this subject are an accidental broken mess.
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