On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Brain Diving: The Ghost with the Most" by Brain Ruh, _ANN_ > http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/brain-diving/2011-08-09
>> ...However, this puts books like Drazen's in an odd predicament. It's not >> really an academic book, since it lacks the references and theories >> something like that would entail, which means it's not a good candidate for >> a university press. My rule of thumb for self-published sources is to see if they cite their sources. If they do, then you can check what they say. If they don't, then you can't, and that can be a problem even with so-called 'reliable' sources. The best measure of reliability after a really reputable name and publisher and reputation, is citing of sources (there is a reason why this is done, after all). So much so, that when I buy (or browse) books that I might consider useful for Wikipedia editing, the first thing I do is look at the back to see how good the references are (if there are any). If there are none, I may buy (borrow if in a library) the book anyway as something of interest, but would be far less likely to use it for Wikipedia editing. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
