From: Toby Bartels on Friday, December 12, 2003 5:07
AM
[[List of presidents of the United States]]
and [[President of the United States]]
are quite different articles, but both are encyclopedic.
(That is, neither was created just to help ''us'' write Wikipedia,
in contrast to [[List of biology topics]].)
We started the [[List of ...]] naming convention in part
to help distinguish these articles naturally.
What specifically do you mean here by "encyclopedic"?