MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Wikipedia should not define individual words, it's not a dictionary, but if encyclopedic articles can be written about phrases (like the recent FA Bush quote) and words (or rather the concept behind the word), there's nothing wrong with creating lists to make them easily searchable. For example, I have nothing against a list of phrases.
I agree. There is a distinction between phrases that have become a part of the language, and the kind of quotation that belongs in Wikiquote. One possible distinction is that a person with a normal ability in English will understand a quotation on a literal level when he first reads it.
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