"Steve Bennett" stevage@gmail.com wrote in message news:000301c601df$013a2380$ea01a8c0@minou...
Some sort of referencing should be possible. For TV or movie synopses, the text itself as an implicit reference is obvious and sufficient, for example.
How far do you want to extend this? For computer games, is unreferenced description of characters ok? What about of cheats and secrets? Of songs, is discussion of lyrics ok? What about chord changes? Etc.
The big question: When is an unreferenced text better than no text?
When it provides enough information for someone else to find a citeable reference to back it up, or in the alternative to demosntrate satisfactorily that there is no such reference.
Maybe it's time that, instead of having to do everything, people were made comfortable acting in the roles of "editors" and "researchers": the former tidy up articles to make them readable, the latter back up articles to make them credible.
HTH HAND