[WikiEN-l] Referencing policy/guidelines

[Fred Bauder]

I think you are correct. To decide otherwise would cut off a vast amount of useful material.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lee [mailto:johnleemk at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:24 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Referencing policy/guidelines
>
>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
>
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