On 14/09/15 21:58, Michael Peel wrote: >> > On 14 Sep 2015, at 21:43, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On 14/09/15 21:29, Michael Peel wrote: >>>> >>> I've reworked the Name section and it is making a lot more sense, but >>>>> >>>> I'm still a little stuck with a citation for the post code stuff >>>>> >>>> since >>>>> >>>> linking to the Royal Mail data is a copyright violation. But we can >>>>> >>>> list >>>>> >>>> the name itself as it's under OGL - I believe. >>> >> Links to websites aren't copyright violations, so if you have a URL for >>> >> the name on RM's site then I'd encourage you to add it to the article. >> > >> > Looks like I hit 'reply' rather than 'reply all' :( > Ah - I hadn't spotted that! Feel free to copy the list back in if you want! > >> > Anyway ... Royal Mail are crafty sods and the only way to get a listing >> > is to search for it from the generic page. >> > http://www3.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode does not allow generated URL's >> > simply to block people skimming the data via code :( >> > >> > And Google will not search for "Weston-Subedge" ... it always strips the >> > punctuation even if you wrap in double quotes .... > It's best to not use them as a reference, then. Think of people accessing the > Wikipedia article in 5 years time, when Royal Mail has changed their websites > and it's no longer returning the same search results - they won't be able to > verify the information. It's better to point towards a more permanent source > of the information in this case.
And since there is not a quotable source ... The information is an impotant element of the problem so I'll leave as is at the moment and see if I can get a back door reference to the same material on the ONS site. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
