Two words: interlibrary loan. -Durova
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Sam Blacketer <[email protected]>wrote: > On 3/4/09, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > (I've been *really annoyed* lately when a fact in an article has a > > reference ... but it's been tagged {{fact}} because it doesn't have an > > *online* reference. Suggestion: searching for all articles with > > "</ref>{{fact" in them and sending 50,000 volts through the chair of > > anyone who tagged a reference on mere paper. > > > I've seen that in editing disputes - where one side insists that the other > side's reference isn't actually verifiable because it's not online so they > can't verify it. Feel like pointing out we did actually use to be able to > check things out before the internet happened you know. However I suspect > most of these are fairly tendentious, along the lines of people who tag > articles as unreferenced because they don't have inline references but do > have a list of books from which all the facts in the article were taken. > > -- > Sam Blacketer > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
