On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
Anthony wrote:
a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article or other page that contains the authorship information of the articles you are re-using.
For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all.
Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attribution at all" in an offline context? I've made this point before, but URLs do not suddenly become devoid of meaning just because you're using a medium where you can't follow a hyperlink. I could just as soon say that print media aren't acceptable sources for Wikipedia articles because you can't check them by following a hyperlink, it's the same logic.
It's not the same logic at all. A reference, by the very definition of the term, refers to something outside the work itself.