On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Of course! What's unfortunate is that some
people are more comfortable
with hard rules than with reasonableness. There are times when citing
another Wikipedia article is perfectly appropriate.
Citing a particular revision, perhaps - the live article is too moving
a target. And it should only be done as a 'per the sources cited
here' way - the Wikipedia article itself is not the reliable source,
but perhaps it might be worthwhile on occasion to refer to the set of
references in an article collectively.
-Matt