On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > As far as when to remove citations to subscription web-sites and when > to leave them intact as convenience links, I use the following rule:
I'm sorry, you've completely and utterly confused me... so let's look: > Part A or 1) *If* the article lives exclusively online, then it gets > removed. We should not be requiring or pandering for, commercial > activity, we as verifiers should have a choice in the matter. There > must always be a "free" alternative of some sort. But many articles could live exclusively online AND be free (free to WP readers, the advertiser is paying). > Part Deux) *If* there is a hard-copy version of the article, and your > citation to the online version is verbose enough that a normally > intelligent person could locate the item in a library, then it can stay. But the verbosity could be a trick. I'll pretend you didn't say verbosity. I'll pretend you said "specified". But I think we hit a very big problem here. It's one thing to patrol Recent Changes. It's quite another to print out "referenced" edits from the last 5 minutes at Recent Changes and... well, good luck trying to find all the material: and when you *have* there will have been another 30,000 items in Recent Changes. > Part Final Bit) *If* your citation to the online article, is so limited > in content that no one could find the article except by following your > link.. then it gets removed. WHAT!? What's WRONG with finding the material at the link!? Provided it's a Reliable Source? > I am vicious and exacting I know. We should be setting the bar for > others to follow, not being lazy in citation practice. Weird. I think I'm far from lazy. But I can't understand your methodology at all. I think I must be grossly misunderstanding what you're saying, because I have no doubt that you're - like me - trying to do everything for the best. But I can't follow your logic. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l