CZ Talk:What Citizendium articles are not

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CZ:NOT - shortcuts are for personal use only and should not appear as such on the wiki. See policy here.

Instructions

Should we have an equivalent of this Wikipedia rule:

Instruction manuals. While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, a Wikipedia article should not read like a how-to style manual of instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain how-tos. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, game guides, and recipes.The how-to restriction does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia. Also, in article space, describing to the reader how other people or things use something is encyclopedic; instructing the reader in the imperative mood about how to use something is not.

I know we have recipes in subpages, but I wonder about articles like toilet training, which is apparently gearing up to give advice on how to do that. John Stephenson 17:54, 18 August 2008 (CDT)

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