[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[wjhonson at aol.com]

That's right.  So in my article on Jodie Foster I state that her 
brother Buddy wrote a book in which he claims that the name "Jodie" 
(which we know was not her birth name) was invented as a sort of 
honorary name based on her mother's lesbian lover's name, Josephine 
Dominguez... Jo... D.

And I cite his book, page 74 for this revelation.  We have to accept on 
good faith, that the encyclopediast has correctly extracted the 
information if we ourselves are unwilling to try to find a copy of the 
book in some nearby library or order it through I.L.L.

At times what I've done is say "would you be willing to quote the exact 
passage with quotation marks?"  Sometimes that works if I'm skeptical 
that they really paraphrased it accurately, and if they are willing to 
do that, but I wouldn't remove it just because I couldn't verify it.  
And I wouldn't remove it just because they said they weren't willing to 
do that, or didn't have access to the item any longer.

By the way this particular paraphrase, about Jodie, is verifiable (my 
page number was made up).  That does not mean it represents reality, we 
weren't there, all we can go by is what been stated.  As far as I know 
Jodie has not specifically refuted it.  I have tried to dig up the 
intricate details, but it's been slow going.

Will Johnson



-----Original Message-----
From: Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 5:07 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:52 AM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> I would submit however, that every print publication over the past 100
> years or perhaps even 200, lives in at least one worldcat repository
> (library) somewhere in the world.

OK, thank you. I expect I'll be spending a lot of time on that site:
it might give me some ideas of stuff I can find at Gutenburg and
Librivox.

I think my other problem still stands though: misrepresenting
(inventing!) what a book says in pretty good knowledge that I won't be
found out. And, hey, if I were an anonymous user, what do I care
anyway?

I suppose I should say: like my email address, I'm User:Bodnotbod.
Nice to meet you.

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