No wonder: the example is 3/4 of the page!
Tom Cloyd-2 wrote: > > In the Wikipedia article on "GNU Lilypond", some ignorant editor had > entered a non-removable advisory which reads - > > "This article or section contains instructions, advice, or how-to content. > The purpose of Wikipedia is to present facts, not to teach subject > matter. Please help improve this article by removing or rewriting the > how-to content, which may qualify for a move to Wikiversity, > http://www.wikihow.com/, or http://howto.wikia.com/."; > > In the Discussion section for the article I have lodged a protest > against this advisory, and justified it by reference to code examples > given in other programing language articles in Wikipedia, which I think > is a sound basis for the protest. > > I personally find the code example in the article an decent illustration > of what Lilypond looks like and does, and thus both informative and > useful. I'm concerned that it NOT be excised, due to its relevance. > Readers truly interested in the content of article will likely want to > see some Lilypond code, and the example in the article meets this need. > > Given the high profile nature of Wikipedia articles, I thought it might > be worthwhile to call attention to this issue, in case someone on this > list who is more involved in that particular article than I am wants to > do some followup. > > At this point in my learning of Lilypond, this is about a hefty a > contribution as I'm likely to make to "the cause". For what it's worth... > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wikipedia%3A-%22GNU-Lilypond%22-article-tp19157368p19157995.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
