On 20/03/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
[sorry for duplicate]
Some of the Amazon ones being discussed here were not as part of a bibliographic entry but were being used for facts quoted in an article, e.g. release dates, etc. In that case, it IS being used as a source, and that's a different case.
It's an unrelated issue that came up at the same time, that. I'm all for using Amazon as a source for (eg) reviews or other data only available through them, but not for using Amazon as though it were a standard bibliographic source.
I think it is useful to keep cataloging information around, for the use of subsequent editors to the article, but I agree that it serves little purpose for the reader in most cases. Perhaps in these cases the entry should be in HTML comment form or be an ignored parameter passed to a cite template.
I'm beginning to feel there's actually something to this nondisplaying parameter trick. Do we use it for anything else?