[WikiEN-l] Referencing policy/guidelines

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Wed May 16 01:26:36 UTC 2007


On 15 May 2007 at 15:08:04 -0400, "David Goodman" 
<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:

> But I could put in a link to a dead site and use it to reference
> anything at all, true or false, and nobody would ever be able to
> dispute it. I think the reasonable thing to do is to leave the link in
> the wikitext, and comment it out with an explanation.
[top-posting snipped]

Is that the Web / Wikipedia equivalent of the mathematical truth that 
by asserting a false statement (like "1 = 0") you can proceed to 
prove literally anything?


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