[WikiEN-l] Referencing policy/guidelines

[Gallagher Mark George]

G'day David Goodman,

(could you possibly stop top-posting?  I'm going to ask before Dan does, because I'm nicer)

> The objection of it being a subscription site is of course wrong, but
> it seems a little more complicated:
> 
> Some or all  of the links reverted were to a dead site. This is a
> different problem. I really do not see a how a link to a site that
> cannot be reached by anyone at all  is a reference.  The only way to
> go would be to find it in a old file somewhere--or to have made a
> permanent link by one of the available methods in the first place, or
> to have an equivalent print link.

All of which are tasks that should be undertaken by the person trying to remove references before he does something silly like what Johnleemk saw.

> This is one of the known hazards of using purely online references.

True.


Cheers,

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