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]].
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