wikipedia: "GNU Lilypond" article

[Tom Cloyd]

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...

Tom

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