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