Ray Saintonge wrote:
I have no objection to documenting ALL the ways to put in a light bulb. (There are more than one ways.) Just because the first person to post on the subject has only presented one way of doing something does not in itself make that contribution POV. If it is the only POV it is necessarily neutral. If there are other POVs, the solution begins with others presenting them, not with censoring the one that's already there.
I see this as more a place for a Wikibook recipes book. An article that consists of 15 pages listing all the variations on chocolate cake is ridiculous for an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia isn't the place to get detailed how-to instructions, but to get conceptual information. This is why the article on, say [[C programming language]] describes the language, rather than being an intro to programming in C tutorial---if you want a detailed intro to C, that's what an "intro to programming in C" wikibook would be for.
I don't even see why this is an argument---it's so completely ridiculous to have recipes in an encyclopedia, barring some famous ones, that I'm baffled people are actually seriously defending the idea.
-Mark