On 12 August 2012 00:07, Ocaasi Ocaasi <wikioca...@yahoo.com> wrote: > This is not just a problem with paywalled sources, but *any* source which is > not available free *and* online. Not all of the sources that have been > donated are solely pay-for-access; some of them, for example, you would just > need a good university library reference section to access. Yet I don't know > if the same concerns would be raised about editors using library reference > desks, any printed content for that matter. Much print content is just as > difficult for readers to verify, whether it is available somewhere in the > brick-and-mortar world free, or not.
I think it's a net win for our mission because it gets a summary of the knowledge itself into the encyclopedia. I would consider it an extremely bad idea for print sources to be deprecated. Wikipedia already has enough of a problem with history having apparently started in 1995. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
