[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Ray Saintonge]

WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/9/2009, bluecaliocean at me.com writes:
>   
>> 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?>>
>>     
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> Hypothetical. We don't require a system where any editor can verify any 
> citation.  We also don't want a system where a vanishingly small number of 
> editors can verify *a* citation.  We want something in the middle.
>
> Your library itself does not need the item.  That is why God created 
> Inter-Library Loan.  Get jiggy with it.  It solves many problems.  Provided you 
> know the repository, and provided the item circulates at all, you can order it 
> to come to you.  You don't have to go to it.
>
>   
There are fees that go with interlibrary loans.  If you only need to 
look at one sentence of a book to verify a statement, you still need to 
consider cost-effectiveness before you spend money to send a book across 
the country.

We would welcome Emily's verifications if she were in a position to make 
them, but her inability in the circumstances described is a fact of 
life. She can only verify what is within her means.  If a work is rare 
or unique that should not disqualify it as a reference.  Most of these 
rare works will be in large cities where there will also be a 
concentration of people available to verify the material.  For much of 
our material the acceptance criterion validly remains verifiable rather 
than verified.

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