[WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites

[Gurch]

Steve Block 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.
> 
> 

As far as I'm aware, the OED cites such sources as examples of words in 
use. In effect the OED is saying "this word was used in this document on 
this date", and citing the document itself to show this. This is not the 
same thing as providing a citation for a factual claim made in an article.

-Gurch