Re: Idea for a new Term for the encyclopedia

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Subject: Re: Idea for a new Term for the encyclopedia
Posted by Hank on June 30, 2002 at 6:42 AM:

In Reply to: Idea for a new Term for the encyclopedia posted by Mike on June 29, 2002 at 11:46 PM:

Ok, here's my thoughts on suggestions like these. We could probably sit here and think up a hundred more terms for the Encyclopedia. But the objective is not to make it as large as possible, nor fill it with every possible term we can dream up, but rather make it a place were people can go to lookup the terms that we use here every day. It already is getting pretty large, and the larger it is, the more likely it is people *won't* find it helpful. So, please, let's limit new entries to the encyclopedia to well-used and accepted georging terms, and not fill it with terms that makes sense but are not really used or add terms just for the purpose of adding them just because we can.

-Hank

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on that subject . . . mirch 2:26 PM 6/30/2002
- Or if newbies often see a term used, then constantly asks what’s a ‘___’? – thanks, mirch… nitch..., I mean Mitch *giggle* (nt) Hans M Guy - HMG in MAss 4:39 PM 6/30/2002
Can I quote you on that? :) nt Slowpoke 10:30 AM 6/30/2002
Great words of wisdom! Don in FL 9:55 AM 6/30/2002
- HANKED! love it! Been it! I'd like to see that term adopted n/t Dave 2:54 PM 6/30/2002
  - I Second The Motion n/t كَك the Astorian 3:26 PM 6/30/2002
- Out of all the recent suggestions . . . AGinAZ 1:31 PM 6/30/2002
- Re: Great words of wisdom! Valerie 10:39 AM 6/30/2002
  - "You've been HANKED!" what a bittersweet irony the Illuminator 11:39 AM 6/30/2002
    - I meant it as a joke, but it may catch on. LOL! -nt Don in FL 11:57 AM 6/30/2002
      - I've been "mitched" but I've never been "Hanked." n/t Buckaroo 5:18 PM 6/30/2002

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: : Ok, here's my thoughts on suggestions like these. We could probably sit here and think up a hundred more terms for the Encyclopedia. But the objective is not to make it as large as possible, nor fill it with every possible term we can dream up, but rather make it a place were people can go to lookup the terms that we use here every day. It already is getting pretty large, and the larger it is, the more likely it is people *won't* find it helpful. So, please, let's limit new entries to the encyclopedia to well-used and accepted georging terms, and not fill it with terms that makes sense but are not really used or add terms just for the purpose of adding them just because we can. : -Hank

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