[WikiEN-l] WP articles citing other WP articles??

[Ray Saintonge]

Philip Sandifer wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Al Tally wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Angela Anuszewski wrote
>>> I just encountered, on the article [[House (TV series)]], that  
>>> citation #3
>>> is actually just a link to [[Words and Deeds (House)]]. Can a article
>>> really
>>> cite another article or should that citation be removed? Seems a  
>>> little
>>> squirrely to me.
>>>       
>> Nope, Wikipedia should never be used as a citation.
>>     
> I think this position is unhelpfully hardline - in the case of fiction  
> articles at least, a citation to another article seems fine in some  
> cases so long as that article is well-referenced. 
These hardline stands, here and on the slashdot thread, are vaguely 
reminiscent of a different generation of healers who used mercury, lead 
and arsenic as materia medica.  Fatalities notwithstanding, they stopped 
the disease.

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