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

[Ray Saintonge]

Geoff Burling wrote:

>I'm throwing out an argument against the concept that an encyclopedia
>should be "informative, not instructional", based on one datum: for many
>years (perhaps even now, but at least into the 1960's) it was not
>uncommon for people to teach themselves how to play chess from the article
>in the encyclopedia.
>
POV: A chessboard has 64 squares.

NPOV: Experts claim that a chessboard has 64 squares.

I wonder where this leads us. :-)

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