Robth wrote:
On 1/4/07, Steve Block steve.block@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]].
Indeed, the OED folks consider original research to be part of their mission.
Ironically, they've long had a bit of wiki-ness about them, in that most of their examples are selected from contributors sending in snippets.
Stan