On 9/29/06, Mak <makwik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Inline citations have now been added to Dido and
Aeneas, easily enough
(there are no page numbers given, because Grove online doesn't have page
numbers, and this particular article is short enough to not have
sub-sections). The point is that if reasonable references are given, inline
citations should not be necessary for uncontroversial facts. If you look at
actual encyclopedias, you will notice that they don't have inline
references, especially for generally accepted facts.
That's true, but is also misleading.
You don't see those references in the *end product*.
But encyclopedia's do check the sources of their statements. I highly
recommend that you listen to this:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives
Validation on Wikipedia: How do I know this article is accurate?
1) An expert writes an article.
2) A fact checker checks *every statement* in the article from at
least 2 reliable sources and documents all of them on a newspaper
sized sheet where the article text is in the middle of the sheet and
the rest contains the references, annotations, recommended changes.
All this material is kept for later editors. (Forward to 27:00 in the
MP3).
Excellent. Where do I sign up?
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