Talk:Lexicographic error

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Should the title of the article have been Reference-book error instead, with broader scope and perhaps separate sections for dictionaries and for encyclopedias? If i accurately recall the Larousse Gastronomique case, that would belong in the encyc section. --Jerzy(t) 22:28, 2004 Nov 5 (UTC)

I removed language

The entry was intended to be "D or d" as abbreviations for "density." Instead, when the type was set, it was misread as "dord" and defined as "density."

that duplicates the linked article's info; IMO the entries that lack content for their own articles should have their small substance here, but unless there are details that directly support some further content (such as what procedures M-W changed in response to the dord incident), there's no point beyond what identifies the event (date, publisher, and work seem enough), and describes its general type.
(The language is also fuzzy and inaccurate.)
--Jerzy(t) 04:18, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)

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