[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 55, Issue 62

[Jon Harald Søby]

Wikipedia is not an organization, and thus cannot be *a* non-profit.

2008/10/29 Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2008/10/22 Mike.lifeguard <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm>:
> > > Delphine wrote:
> >
> > >>1) The slogan "Wikipedia is a non-profit" sounds weird to me...
> >
> > > Well, Wikipedia itself isn't a nonprofit, the Foundation is. But "is
> > > nonprofit" and "is a nonprofit" are both acceptable in English (1st is
> > > an adjective, 2nd is a noun) so I don't see an issue with those words.
> >
> >
> > "is nonprofit" would be more strictly accurate.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> >
> >
> It's not conclusive of anything, but interesting:
>
> Google.com search for
> "is non-profit": about 90,000
> "is nonprofit":  about 41.200
> "is a nonprofit": about 1,930,000
> "is a non-profit": about  1,660,000
>
> Of course, this doesn't take into account the context.
>
> Perhaps "Wikipedia is a nonprofit organization" (or "non-profit
> organization") if you prefer. Of course, that exposes the
> "organisation/organization" difference.
>
> -Rich
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