[WikiEN-l] HOWTOs/Recipes/Instructions and other imperative content

[Ray Saintonge]

Imran Ghory wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, David Friedland wrote:
>
>>  Under what Wikipedia articles are not:
>>* Instructions. Wikipedia seeks to be informative, not instructional.
>>
>
>In the words of [[James Murray]] "we should be descriptive, not
>prescriptive".
>
Instructions, even though written in the imperative, are still 
descriptive.  The only penalty may be that your cake won't rise, or 
worse, you may blow yourself up and earn a Darwin Award. :-\   No 
penalty will be applied by any other person.

Ec