On 12/4/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
This makes me very nervous, as I envision people challenging all sorts of what are now unchallenged, acceptable sources because they can't be bothered to go to the library and check out a widely available book.
We already have the situation where some sources (ie, web sites) are obviously much more verifiable than others (books). Why would converting some of the latter into the former suddenly make the whole system implode?
No way am I going to start scanning things in. This sort of thing should only be reserved for unavailable sources in controversial articles (things that probably shouldn't be used in controversial articles anyway, but that's another issue) and if we set up a system for it, it will encourage people to use and demand this sort of verification. AGF and a library card should suffice.
I wasn't actually suggesting forcing or even encouraging people to scan stuff in. But for people who already *have* it, or *want* to, there is actually no way to do this.
The situation that crops up more often for me is taking photos of information plaques at tourist sites - I use the information on them later on to write the article, and would like to make the image available for someone who wants to verify what I've done, or possibly to expand on it. I don't think copyright is an issue. Nor is anyone going to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometres to do it, for what is a pretty trivial article.
Now, I *have* the image. Where do I put it?
Steve