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"?
Charles