The Cunctator wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>[[List of presidents of the United States]]
>and [[President of the United States]]
>are quite different articles, but both are encyclopedic.
>(That is, neither was created just to help ''us'' write Wikipedia,
>in contrast to [[List of biology topics]].)
>We started the [[List of ...]] naming convention in part
>to help distinguish these articles naturally.
What specifically do you mean here by
"encyclopedic"?
The bit in parentheses just after I used the word:
>(That is, neither was created just to help
''us'' write Wikipedia,
>in contrast to [[List of biology topics]].)
This shouldn't be taken as a complete definition of the term, of course!
This is a rough operational definition, asking why we created the page:
to improve the encyclopedia directly for the reader ("encyclopedic"),
or to help us in our task of writing the encyclopedia ("backstage").
-- Toby