Philip Sandifer wrote:
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Al Tally wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Angela Anuszewski wrote
I just encountered, on the article [[House (TV series)]], that citation #3 is actually just a link to [[Words and Deeds (House)]]. Can a article really cite another article or should that citation be removed? Seems a little squirrely to me.
Nope, Wikipedia should never be used as a citation.
I think this position is unhelpfully hardline - in the case of fiction articles at least, a citation to another article seems fine in some cases so long as that article is well-referenced.
These hardline stands, here and on the slashdot thread, are vaguely reminiscent of a different generation of healers who used mercury, lead and arsenic as materia medica. Fatalities notwithstanding, they stopped the disease.
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