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

[Robth]

On 1/4/07, Steve Block <steve.block at 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]].

-- 
Robth
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robth)