[Ads-l] General Suggestion

[dave@wilton.net]

I would like to second this. It's especially important for newspapers (there are lots of newspaper databases out there) but true for all types of sources.
 
And I hope that professional lexicographers are paying attention. Almost all dictionaries are woefully deficient in their source citation practices. (If dictionaries were student papers, I would fail them for a lack of usable citations.) While minimizing the amount of column inches was once an important cost factor back in the days of print, for digital resources there is no reason not to include a complete citation that readers can follow to identify and locate the source.
 
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From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2024 11:33am
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Subject: [ADS-L] General Suggestion



I have long noticed that sometimes when people on ADS-L post about a citation of word usage, they don't indicate which database they found it in. The database information is very helpful if someone wants to see the context of the word usage.

Fred Shapiro

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