[WikiEN-l] Historian: origin of apparent "policy" re recipes and how-tos?

Thu May 13 01:17:25 UTC 2004

On May 11, 2004, at 6:52 AM, Daniel P.B.Smith wrote:

> Here's what I want to know. Is this an example of a difficult, 
> carefully-threshed-out consensus that newer Wikipedians, having not 
> participated in that consensus, may be unaware of?

Difficult, yes.   Carefully-threshed-out, sort of.  Consensus, no.
At least I never heard a definitive one.  However, I was left with
the impression that prescriptive material doesn't belong in the
Wikipedia, but can often be reworded to be descriptive.  The
conversion process seems to weed out the POV.  But, no, that's not
really a consensus, and that's why it's not in the policy.

Peter

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