[WikiEN-l] The vexed issue of sources

[The Cunctator]

On 12/11/06, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > The source being used in the article is not the writing on the wall.
> > The source is the few Wikipedians that have seen the writing. While
> > the writing is probably reliable, the few Wikipedians are not.
>
> By this reasoning, a source isn't a book, it's the few Wikipedians who
> have
> read the book.
>
> How exactly is the writing on the wall different from a book?  (Sure, not
> every Wikipedian can go read the writing, but not every Wikipedian has
> access
> to a particular book either.)


A wall carving is more likely to last longer.