On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Joseph Reagle wrote:
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Charles Matthews wrote:
My comment was written late at night. But I don't really understand why the author thought (a) permalinks are uncool, but (b) paraphrasing this WP stuff and passing it off as my own and copyright is clearly cool. And issues this as an apology.
I agree, permalinks are the way to go. However, I can sympathize with the
ugliness of permalinks and access requirements, which are standard Chicago. If you have more than one Web resource referenced in a note (if you don't want every sentence to have a footnote), it's really difficult to read:
[[TinyURL]], I would say. Do we take this into account in any advice "how to cite Wikipedia"?
We want people to have to rely on an external URL redirecting service to cite us?
Online, I would go for maximum convenience of links. In print, I'd go for readability and put citations at the back of the document or the end of the chapters. Footnotes that might need to be read with the text, can be put at the foot of the page or end of the chapters.
Carcharoth