[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:40:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dan at tobias.name writes:


> So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of 
> only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole 
> Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there 
> to check it.>>

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Items of this level of rarity fail our test that the item is publicly 
accessible.  We never really set where the bar should be, but we all seemed to 
agree (at the time) that an item should be generally available in some way.  
It's too onorous to require a random editor to have to verify something 
against a single copy.

By the way, you would think that if something this rare were really worth 
citing, that it would have already been published in a scholarly edition.  
Your example is a bit eccentric, I wonder if you have an actual case in mind.

Will Johnson



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