Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007, doc wrote:
Sorry, I thought we were an encyclopedia, not a free-speech campaign group?
Exactly how does publishing the string, as opposed to writing an article about it, further our declared aims?
Publishing the string would be part of writing an article. It's true that few people may look up the article in order to get the string, but that's true of many facts in many articles.
In the course of providing references for a wiide range of articles we can follow established referencing standards which include ISBNs. Are people able to remember and quote ISBNs without looking them up? That said, I can't see the momorability of a string as a factor.
Ec