On 5/22/07, Andrew Cates andrew@catesfamily.org.uk wrote:
Okay friends, ... 3) We also took out other content unsuitable for children. For example we judged http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/m/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp.htm as historically important but the section on "Inmates" too graphic for an eight year old girl to read. We also took out references/external links sections since it looks like the community doesn't want to vouch for these.
I've had a look at the website, and it looks great ... but ...
The #CITEREF links in the texts do not work for the articles I have viewed, and you mention above that the citations have been stripped. I think removing the external links section is a fine idea, but removing the citations appears odd. I expect that adults would appreciate citations to be in the compilation in order to know where they need to turn in order to answer the unique questions that children ask. Displaying citations also reinforces the notion that the facts and opinions recorded in Wikipedia are all there because the research was done in other works. Is it possible to keep the citation data, but strip out any URLs in them? Is there is anything that we can do to clean up the citation data in order to be acceptable?
The text in disclaimer.htm is in need of a layout tidy-up; specifically it is missing a carriage return between "WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY" and "Wikipedia is an...".
-- John