Talk:Grey literature

message: Who uses "gray"? According to Wiktionary, even the Brits use grey. Can I change the title? II | (t - c) 08:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Even the Brits". What a disgracefully bigotted, and flawed, comment. The above contributor should consider that a high proportion of "Brits" are English, and therefore how they spell any English word is valid and can not be so belittled ... the English spelling of English words is pre-eminent over corrupted variants of the English language.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.187.78.160 (talk) 14:22, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

text: From usage, Google search turns up over 900,000 for "grey literature" and 316,000 for "gray literature" so on that basis should be changed to Grey. Another basis would be the origins. Did the term appear first in UK (then it'd be grey) or the US (probably gray), or somewhere else?  Can anyone answer that?  Daveofthenewcity (talk) 07:55, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is now pretty consistent in its use of "grey", apart from the title. I'm going to move it. GrindtXX (talk) 12:43, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

text: Not allowed to move it, so I've made a formal move request. GrindtXX (talk) 12:56, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Grey or Gray

message: Parts of this read like a speech or essay, not an encyclopedia article.  For example:
:Internet transforms the whole value chain of publishing. The Web offers new tools and channels for producing, disseminating and assessing scientific literature. Author and reader, producer and consumer change their information behaviour. We definitely left the Gutenberg era. So what about the definition of grey literature? Is it still empirically sound?
This should be fixed. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad style/tone

message: What does this have to do with grey literature? Perhaps that we shouldn't be looking at emails as sources? It's unclear. I plan to remove this from the section if there is no discussion. Buttonwillowite (talk) 23:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climategate 

message: Can somebody justify the inclusion of the picture of Admont Abbey library? Is it supposed to be a library holding a significantly high proportion of grey literature – in which case shouldn't that be explained?
I also have a problem with the inclusion of the title page of Kierkegaard's university thesis. I'm unfamiliar with the procedures for submitting theses in mid-C19 Denmark, but this looks to me like a published version, and not grey literature at all.
GrindtXX (talk) 18:55, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now replaced the Admont Abbey pic with one of the British Library, which seems marginally more relevant. Still not happy with Kierkegaard, though. GrindtXX (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: What is "malin-grey literature"? I was left hanging on that word.
The only things I could find out there were articles of people equally intrigued and doing the same Google-diving as I did (e.g., "Malin-grey, what are you?").
Apparently there once was a "Malin-grey literature" section in this entry. Why was it removed? Nevertheless, a self-reference alone won't do.
Is there a minimally trusted source regarding its definition? If not, I'd suggest we scrapped this obscure/enigmatic reference. Fstorino (talk) 21:47, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malin-grey literature 

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