Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brian wrote:
On the contrary, any published books, such as....
Encyclopaedia
Britannica, has every single one of the its facts checked against
each individual source. This is a requirement of the publisher, and
of the company.
This is an interesting statement. What sources do you have for your
description of how the editors of EB work? Has this been documented
in public?
Danny originally brought this fact up because he is writing a
reference book as part of a series of books to be published. Every
single one of the statements he made in the book had to have a source.
He said it took several months for every one of his facts to be
checked against every single source. This is how it works in the world
of publishing. We have simply side-stepped this out of laziness, in my
opinion.
It's great that you trust Danny, but some would think that using another
Wikipedian as a reference source is not a good idea. Now we just need
to bug Danny about his source for the specific question that was asked.
Good references need to be traceable.
Ec