[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is not a dictionary (was: Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered)

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> "Wikipedia is not a how-to manual". The grinches did get rid of the
>> recipes though; not many left.
>
> I'm ok with that one because there can be many recipes for each dish,
> and it quickly becomes very arbitrary. But each word only has one
> etymology, so there isn't that problem.

No, there isn't.  And that's why Wiktionary can work.  But articles
about words don't belong in an encyclopedia.  Encyclopedias talk about
the concept behind the word, not the word itself.