[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[David Goodman]

"1. Do we have an approved and sensible citation style for GB?

The point is that some people simply paste in the very long GB URL for a
page. I tend to do the other thing, which is to treat it no differently
from a book I have open in front of me."

You do both.

As I understand it , the standard way  at WP of citing anything from
GNews and the like, which I think   applies to GBooks also, is to cite
the actual published work as an ordinary book, including the page
number, and then add the link as a convenience link in the for [http:
whatever  Google Books]. The cite books template also has a place to
do it.

The rationale is that it is absolutely essential to give a source that
can be used in a library by anyone to obtain the book either there or
via interlibrary loan. It's also necessary though to say where you
actually found the reference--hence the link to GBooks. All such refs
to the Googles and similar convenience links, such as Proquest and
Lexis and JSTOR )  need to be checked and if necessary upgraded.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



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