MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Tue Mar 20 18:43:49 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: IMAP Wiki [was: Re: [Imap-protocol] IMAP features: which clients
	use them?] 
In-Reply-To: <46008660.2040107@avaya.com> 
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Message-ID: <07Mar20.174358pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>

> I do know Wikipedia's policies and this is not a good idea.
> Wikipedia's content is restricted to "encyclopedic" topics,
> with information sourced from "reliable secondary sources".
> A list of IMAP clients and what protocol extensions they
> support, created by the subscribers to this list, would almost
> certainly be what Wikipedia calls "original research" (which
> is prohibited).   Wikipedia does have articles on IMAP and
> a variety of other topics of interest to subscribers of this
> list.  A non-exhaustive list of what should not be at Wikipedia
> is at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT>.

I don't think this is "original research", by their definition: "such
as proposing theories and solutions, original ideas, defining terms,
coining new words, etc."  It would be a collection of hard facts, a
consensus of experts.

Bill

