Where are standard wordcounts for different types of fiction found?

I've heard it said on here that 100,000 words is about right for a novel, 20,000 is about a novella and much too much for a short story...

What are the sources for these numbers, are there more I am not aware of, and is there any current debate on the validity of them?

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