Michael Peel wrote: > On 20 Mar 2009, at 08:57, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > >> Is this problem really exclusive to online references? I'd >> guess there is plenitude of author references to "[...] et >> al." (or none at all) out there that cannot be resolved >> without access to a catalog or the source material itself >> and become "devoid of meaning" at the latest when these re- >> sources are destroyed or not accessible. >> > I'm not talking about references to a text, I'm talking about a copy > of the text. That's completely different. Please, give me examples of > where text is reprinted with the authors attributed as "[...] et al." > or none at all. > > A copy of Wikipedia text is frequently used in eBay descriptions of books. The attribution is simply to Wikipedia, and does not progress so far as to say "[...] et al." That's about as much as anyone could reasonably expect, no matter what the licence says.
Only my own laziness and the economics of publishing prevent me from putting together a book of related Wikipedia articles. (Maybe a wiki-guide to Vancouver in time for the upcoming Olympics.) If I did I could do so safely in the knowledge that no-one would sue me. For any author to expect otherwise is to suffer (to use Milos's appropriate term) from "bourgeois egotism." Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
