On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:42:51 +0900, Guillaume Blanchard gblanchard@arcsy.co.jp wrote:
I don't see good technical reasons (= technical solution that couldn't be done on WP) to move lexicological information outside of Wikipedia but it's not the point. Move cooking information (or a day sport, tv, celebrities, etc.) outside of the encyclopedia is not legitimate as far as you don't give reason why is not encyclopedic (witch is impossible if we don't all us the same definition of what a encyclopedia is). "Present the whole spectrum of human knowledge" is close to my own definition, but I'm not sure everybody where have the same definition and it's clearly not the way we are following removing recipes. I agree the fact we need some limit to the "whole spectrum", but I'd like to have a definition of this limit. "Things that didn't interfere life of wide human group" ?
In my opinion, an encyclopedia is in the first place a work of reference, and from that I get my idea of what should be in Wikipedia: All that normally would be found in some reference work (some "encyclopedia of such-and-such"). That also makes me more deletionist than people like you, probably.
Andre Engels