In a message dated 8/9/2009 9:59:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, saintonge@telus.net writes:

Most of these rare works will be in large cities where there will also be a concentration of people available to verify the material. For much of our material the acceptance criterion validly remains verifiable rather than verified.>>

------------------- Yes of course. I would still like to see a valid example of a rare work cited where there is no scholarly edition available. I'm skeptical that such a case exists.

As I said, we don't require verification of all things by all editors, and we don't want a situation where only a few editors can verify *a* thing. What we want is something in the middle, a bell curve of verification-ability. But with both 10% ends chopped off. Other encyclopedias do not cite to rare holdings, they will cite to a published edition of such a rare holding.

Will Johnson

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