Wikipedia talk:Reference Desk philosophies

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"Metaphor" versus "analogy"

I happen to think that "analogism" is a very intuitive name for the philosophy according to which the reference desk should strive to mimic a real-world reference desk.

However, I did like the changes that StuRat made to the text explaining the concepts. Maybe the word "analogism" will eventually gain strenght and become a subsection of the section Metaphor. As a non-analogist, I think that the word "metaphor" is a better description of my particular view of why the reference desk has this name, so, maybe, the two conflicting philosophies should be named "analogism" and "metaphorism" after all. A.Z. 04:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]