[WikiEN-l] Lists of words

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

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 at 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_Words
>
> 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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