User talk:Panoble

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Again, welcome! In particular, I'd just like to say that the point of the quotations in the article is to show how a word is used by including a snippet of the text that uses the word, not simply to describe a reference. As dictionary, what's more important for us is the way that the word is used "in the wild", rather than simply how other references define the word. For example, there are lots of words that have been defined by dictionaries but apparently never used in real books/articles, and we don't want words like these. On the other hand, there are words that dictionaries and other works have said are "wrong" but are still widely used (irregardless, hopefully, exponentially) and which we include (with a note that some people disapprove of their use). At the moment, the word "thanatomicrobiome" is only a few months old, and all the articles that use the word are defining and explaining it to their audience. We want to see whether or not the word will catch on with other researchers, which is why we're collecting these quotations and have marked it a "hot word". All the references in the world won't save the entry if it turns out that no-one ever uses this word again. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:19, 22 October 2014 (UTC)