On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:52:45 -0500, "Daniel P. B.
Smith"
<wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote:
Or even "the book was not found
in an online search of the Cornell University Library Catalog." If
the citation gives the details of the search, that gives the
opportunity for someone else to check and point out that the search
succeeds if you spell the title differently. Not at all impossible.
Another issue: a particular promoter of a particular POV cites a book
in support of his argument. It is not a widely-circulated book.
Others are unable to find the book, or, having found the book, unable
to find the specific text supposedly quoted. At some point we have to
apply the "yeah, right" rule and remove it.
If the book hasn't been published or circulated widely enough, at some
point it falls into the non-notable/vanity publication/extreme
minority opinion category.
Jay.