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Talk:Quoting out of context (view source)
Revision as of 15:56, April 21, 2007
, 15:56, April 21, 2007→Quote mining
:Agreed. My first draft was hasty, sloppy, and inaccurate. :-( --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:47, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
:Agreed. My first draft was hasty, sloppy, and inaccurate. :-( --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:47, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::Aren't first drafts supposed to be hasty, sloppy, and inaccurate. :-) [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:54, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::Aren't first drafts supposed to be hasty, sloppy, and inaccurate. :-) [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:54, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
:::I think quote mining '''is''' an example of taking quotations out of context, but I don't think we should use the phrase in this article, at least not in the lead, because it is not in general use outside of a narrow arena... and because that narrow arena is the locale for some fighting in this neighborhood. The phrase seems to have originated in the USENET group talk.origins, and is used ''almost'' exclusively by evolutionists as a name for what they say is a dishonest tactic widely used by creationists. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:56, 21 April 2007 (EDT)