Wikipedia should not define individual words, it's not a dictionary, but if
encyclopedic articles can be written about phrases (like the recent FA Bush
quote) and words (or rather the concept behind the word), there's nothing
wrong with creating lists to make them easily searchable. For example, I
have nothing against a list of phrases.
Mgm
On 7/31/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It would appear that lists of words violate the provision that Wikipedia
should not have articles which define individual words, nor should it
include Lists of such definitions. However, we have
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_words ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_slang and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_phrases , among others.
Policy is descriptive, not prescriptive. Is this policy still being
applied
(in which case, *all* of these articles must be deleted), or not (in which
case the wording of the policy needs to be changed). I have raised the
issue
at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Lists_of_…
I don't know if all of these articles need to be deleted, or whether
policy
needs to be modified to reflect reality. But I think this needs to be
determined in general, not determined piecemeal
Ian
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