[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia has no policy on word articles

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Steve Bennett" wrote
> When someone can come up with a reasonable policy that can
> distinguish between dictionary entries and encyclopaedia entries,
> without using the self-referential terms "dictionary definition" or
> "encyclopaedic", then perhaps it will serve some purpose.

Is is so bad? A dicdef is in some sense a kind of stub. The problem comes when it is incapable of being more than that. If [[ouch]] were just an article saying it was an exclamation associated with feeling pain, then that would be a valid criticism. 

Charles

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