[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[Jay Litwyn]

This is probably how some contributors do good work.
They subscribe to a commercial information service, whether it be databases 
or whole electronic archives of past issues. And, then they crib from it, 
and they know how to defend results, because they saw details in the 
experiment, transcript, poll. Maybe they can even see raw data. Local 
libraries do much the same thing that is talked about in this thread. For 
instance, if I want a phone number, there still is not a central directory 
on the internet that I know of, and my library subscribes to a yearly CD 
database for North America. Back in the eighties, my library subscribed to 
paper phone directories for the same region. It took about five square 
metres.