User talk:The Culinary Library

Chuck Entz (talk) 21:33, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

There are two main reasons I reverted your edits to gnudi: first of all, we're a descriptive dictionary, so we describe terms as they're actually used, not as logic or study of the history or the thing they refer to might suggest is correct. If some (language) authority says it's incorrect as a term, we might label it as "proscribed", but that wouldn't change the definition.

Secondly, this is a dictionary: our definitions need to be concise and only deal with the meaning of the term. Lengthy discussions about the history and nature of the thing referred to by the term are for encyclopedias. There's some room for discussion of the history of the term in the etymology section, but only of the term itself, not the thing it refers to. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 21:33, 14 October 2017 (UTC)