[WikiEN-l] Referencing policy/guidelines

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 5/15/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since when have we banned the use of online subscription news-sites as
> references, or made it policy that dead links cannot be cited as sources?
> The latter plainly contradicts [[WP:CS]], and a brief overview of the
> relevant WP pages reveals no overt ban on citations from subscription
> sites,
> but I just found out that somebody pulled out a bunch of such references:
> <
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ketuanan_Melayu&diff=130291263&oldid=128633105
> >
>
> I was bold and reverted, but I would like to know if I didn't get the memo
> or if I've always been misunderstanding how we do things.
>
> Johnleemk


I think it's a basic misunderstanding of what verifiable means. If a site is
subscription it means it's not verifiable for the person removing it at that
point. That shouldn't prevent anyone from looking further than a simple
google search, though. There's other ways to get at subscription info. We
have a nice page for that ourselves.

Mgm