https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12900
Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2009-11-20 16:06:54 UTC --- Note that the ISBN-13 format is just equivalent in its format to the EAN-13 standard in which it was allocated for books. But the EAN-13 standard has similar formats for identifying video products (ASIN numbers, also available in older 10-digits format), audio products like CDs (also available in older 10-digit format). Why restricting such references this to published books? See related Bug #8758 (for ASIN support: this would avoid links to problematic audio/video clips shared illegally on sites like YouTube, that could still host some legal audio/video extracts from protected larger contents, by identifying them with their ASIN number : this would not promote only these commercial sites by more fairly, other online merchants that legally sell the full products ; this would allow verifiable references for these audio/video sources, that are still too badly considered even though they are perfectly valid and should still be usable as references for Wikipedia verifiability of article contents). The ISBN numbers were introduced to allow easier identification of references, but also to avoid the direct insertion of advertizing links within the articles (because this promoted specific merchant sites, and was against a fair competition; before that, there were too many unnecessary links within Wikipedia articles or in their reference sections, but still not enough to offer a fair choice for visitors). This should also apply to references for audio and video products sold by various merchant sites or distributors. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
