Stan Shebs wrote:
Robth wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Steve Block <steve.block(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Bogdan Giusca wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Maybe I spent too much time editing history articles, where the source
>>> credibility matters, but accepting blog/forum/usenet posts as valid
>>> sources would be a great mistake, IMO.
>>>
>> Go tell it to the Oxford English Dictionary then.
>>
> Professionally published dictionaries use those kind of sites as
> primary sources (examples of contemporary usages) in academic research
> about the usage of the English language. In other words, exactly the
> sort of thing we [[WP:OR|don't do]].
Funny, I thought they used it to document the English language. Maybe
documenting the language is academic research though.
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