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.
Ec