[WikiEN-l] SOS -- Save Our Sources

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Dec 4 12:04:26 UTC 2006


"Steve Bennett" wrote

> I believe we should also have a way of making dead-tree sources
> available (through scans etc) for verification. Currently, we don't
> seem to have any way of uploading a scan of a page or whatever, simply
> for the purpose of verification. It wouldn't be for inclusion in the
> article itself, and possibly restricted to logged in users, but I
> would have thought this would easily satisfy "fair use".

No, I don't think it would. And I'm against any movement from 'verifiability' as we understand it, to 'anyone online ought to be able to verify'. Entirely different things.

Charles

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