The point of our projects as a whole, is to provide information,; it is much more important to make the information easy to find so people will not miss it, even by their usual habit of relying on the google hit & not following even the most obvious of cross-references, rather than argue about which of two places to put it.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stephanie Daugherty sdaugherty@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
What counts as "beyond a dictionary entry". Are you talking about length, or content?
The latter. The aforementioned "Nigger" article contains a great deal of material that one would not find in any dictionary with which I'm familiar.
It also contains a great deal of material that one would not find in any encyclopedia with which I'm familiar.
And most of the material I think would be *more likely* to be in a dictionary than an encyclopedia. Meaning, etymology, usage, derivatives. These are all things more likely to be found in a dictionary than an encyclopedia.
Basically, if you took a dictionary, and removed the space requirements, and then took an encyclopedia, and removed the space requirements, the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger would likely be in the former, and not the latter.
Well stated, and I think that clearly states the purpose of "not a dictionary". It's not anything to do with notability, it's what belongs where.
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