[WikiEN-l] A much neglected aspect of quality - Bibliographies

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 12:00:57 UTC 2007


On 01/07/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> quiddity wrote:
>
> >My recommendation (made somewhere, a while ago), is that
> >"Bibliography" be recommended (as part of the MoS) only as a term for
> >a subject's personal/collaborative works, along the lines of
> >"Filmography" and "Discography".
> >
> This is contrary to the way that the term is normally understood in the
> rest of the world.

The word has two meanings. In most contexts, there is no problem, as
it's clear which is which. In a comprehensive article on an author or
a published work, though, both are valid interpretations...

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- Andrew Gray
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