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.

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