[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Emily Monroe]

Will,

If I may ask a question.

What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or  
days even) via whatever transportation I have available?

What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and  
there's no way I can really get books or newsletter to help cite  
wikipedia?

What would I do then? Do I just not verify citations?

Emily
On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:11 PM, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:

> 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.>>
>
> -------------------------
>
> 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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