At 05:06 AM 7/20/02 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
The other day I was looking at silver pennies and
silver denarius es on
eBay. I had got curious after working on some coin articles. Turns out
there are quite a few being offered on eBay of both at any time; usually
with two images of the coin. Now, this is not about using the image from
eBay on Wikipedia.
What it is about is that in the case of collectibles or other items that an
eBay search for will generate a reasonable number of hits that one might
include in an article the information that an eBay search for "silver
penny" or "silver denarius" will yield a number of illustrated hits.
For example:
Silver pennies are a [[collectible]] and are frequently offered for sale on
[[eBay]]. To view silver pennies on eBay enter a search for "silver penny."
A link to an eBay search page is probably not too good as it will contain
information about your ebay cookies, unless you know how to remove that info.
I don't like it. I don't like anything that basically comes down to "go
offsite and
run a search", and I really don't like doing that when what will turn up is
variable
over short time periods. (A Google image search is at least likely to change
more slowly.) I also don't like the implicit endorsement of a specific
commercial
auction service.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org