[Ads-l] General Suggestion

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fred and Dave’s suggestion is worthwhile. For more than a decade I
have usually included the name of the database within a citation.

The first articles on the Quote Investigator website appeared in 2010.
The biographical notes employed a custom format with the date listed
first and the database listed last. Also, the QI citations link to
public domain books in the Google Books database when available.

Some citations are verified with scans sent to me by librarians,
colleagues, or friends.

Note, some databases. e.g., the Internet Archive, are under relentless
attack in the court system.

Admittedly, I do not always specify the database or the precise method
of verification. If you are a researcher, and you require details for
a citation please contact me off list.

Garson

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM dave at wilton.net <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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>
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> Subject: [ADS-L] General Suggestion
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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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