On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Anthony wrote: > >> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article > >> or other page that contains the authorship > >> information of the articles you are re-using. > >> > > For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all. > > > Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attribution at all" in > an offline context? I've made this point before, but URLs do not > suddenly become devoid of meaning just because you're using a medium > where you can't follow a hyperlink. I could just as soon say that print > media aren't acceptable sources for Wikipedia articles because you can't > check them by following a hyperlink, it's the same logic. It's not the same logic at all. A reference, by the very definition of the term, refers to something outside the work itself. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l