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

[Fred Bauder]

> So does that mean we can restore the article on "the"?
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The

Good example of a poor decision. If nothing else, a discussion of how
Russian does without the, or a, or an but English seeming needs them
would be very interesting.

The question is how we could somehow modify this rigid approach. What
does it take to modify something that ingrained into policy?

Fred Bauder