At 07:16 AM 10/2/02 -0700, Fred Bauder wrote:
When I wrote [[Great Salt Lake]] I got most of the
facts out of an issue of
High Country News. I put that down at the bottom of the page, but for my
trouble got a rather persistant inquiry as to whether I had copied the
article from there, i.e. wasn't this a copyright violation and had to spend
time saying no, I had just extracted the facts from there. T
If you'd said "based on information from High Country News", I'd have
known
what you meant in the first place. And it was only a "persistent inquiry"
because copyright violation is our big no-no and you ignored my first query.
hen they
removed the information that that was the source of the information. So I
kind of got out of the habit after that. That's kind of petty since
information on Great Salt Lake is kind of common. Now, especially if I work
from a book I just put it in '''Further Reading'''. It would help
in lots
of cases for checking information if we all did get into the habit of
citing sources though. Sometimes it can be kind of ephemeral like a NPR
interview, but even then at least one might know.
In general, I think this is a good use for Talk pages.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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