On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Tom Parmenter wrote:
|From: Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com
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|is already. Nevertheless, I think important words like |"fuck" and "nigger" deserve their own encyclopedic |treatment, especially since other encyclopedias shy |away from them. | |Note that "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" does not |mean that we can't have encyclopedia articles about |certain words. | |Axel |
Axel is correct as to the need for articles on certain individual words.
We can also have a constellation of articles like [[taboo]], [[profanity]], and, now, [[obscenity]] to cover different angles on the same basic subject.
I agree fully with all of the above.
I'd like to add that we should go out of our way to write the article as if we were adults with a scholarly interest in the subject, rather than immature eedjits who are snickering as they type, because they think they're using the trappings of (pseudo-) scholarship to put something over on more mature people with sense and good taste. Moreover, I'm convinced this is actually possible with these topics. :-)
Larry