[WikiEN-l] Re: Descriptive/proscriptive
phil hunt
zen19725 at zen.co.uk
Sat May 15 16:31:11 UTC 2004
On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:20:48 +0100, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Much of the Britannica 11th is at what might be called the
>> engineering-handbook level of depth and detail.
>
>Encyclopedias are traditionally rich on technology articles. Doesn't follow
>that they must be cookbooks.
Why should we restrict ourselves to what encyclopedias traditionally
do? We're Wikipedia, not some hidebound traditional encyclopedia.
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