Talk:Beta reader
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Um... how on Earth would you cite references or sources on an internet slang term used everywhere, but mostly on non-permenent pages? I mean, if you read fiction on just about any modern internet archive, or join or read just about any blog, journal, group or site dedicated to writing online, you will run across the term. Usually frequent. I'm actually asking this not out of annoyance, but - how do people usually cite this kind of thing, anyway?
Although I did cite one print source that used it - Naomi Novik's first novel (as noted in my previous edits of the article) actually thanks her beta readers (and uses that very same term, as well) in the very first paragraph of the acknowledgements page. Some really big-name authors (Stephen King, Anne McCafferey, etc.) have read and endorsed that book (as seen in all the blurbs on the paperback copy I got from the public library), so the book is somewhat notable in and of itself - wouldn't the usage of the term in it under this same context provide a decent source?
I suppose that is the problem with the "This article does not cite its sources" tag. It's a bit gruff and doesn't really say much. :P
As such, it would be nice if people discussed why they added a tag when they do so. :\ I wish more people would. Runa27 18:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
