Peter Jacobi wrote:
Quite often, when I stumble by accident into an article,
perhaps interwiki-ing from/to de.wikipedia, I find dozens
of weblinks and not a single book given, even when they are
easy to find, even for me.
At some point of time we must stop trying to evolve
into a backup copy of the WWW and draw from other
sources.
Amen to that, and there are a bunch of editors who've evolved past
the "first 10 hits from Google" stage. It's remarkable how little is
online, compared to a university library; try picking random pages
of random books, oftentimes the net might have a mention of a word
or two, but none of the page's factual content.
Stan