[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Bod Notbod]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, michael west<michawest at gmail.com> wrote:

> We cite books which aren't available online and in some cases out of
> print. I don't see the problem.

I take your point. Although a difference strikes me. I'm not sure it's
valid but I'll throw it out there.

Where a book (possibly out of print) is cited we should be giving
details of Title, Author, ISBN and possibly Edition.

With newspaper links we should be giving Newspaper, Journalist, Access Date...

I'm wondering if, if newspaper content goes behind a pay wall, we
would really have to be giving citation information that pertains to
the actual printed copy of the article, ie, Newspaper, Print Date and
Page Number?

Also, though you don't see a problem and are comfortable with how you
would handle this development I wonder how you can be sure how editors
(particularly anon and policy ignorant editors) will respond to this
new turn of events. People will have an entirely reasonable
expectation that if they click on a citation link that they will,
indeed, be taken to a page that backs up any given assertion (and not
a registration screen). If that doesn't happen they may respond by
removing the link and the content it was supposed to verify.