It seems perfectly reasonable to me that general or summary Wikipedia articles should be based upon the work done and cited in the more detailed and specific articles. I really don't see the point in citing everything in such articles twice--though it does mean we have to be careful to actually have the references somewhere instead of assuming that they're where they ought to be, or using circular references
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Sawczynec glasscobra15@gmail.com
AFAIK, citing other Wikipedia articles in the form of episodes of a show is actually quite common for TV show articles; for example, in articles for Scrubs, a TV show popular in the States, character articles often sources statements made by that character as simply <ref>[[Episode name]], season 2, episode 17</ref>, or something similar. I don't really see this as a negative thing, though; and certainly better than no citation at all.
In fact, in the vast majority of such cases the citation isn't actually intended to cite the article it's linked to, it's citing the episode _itself_ (as a primary source). The link to the Wikipedia article is merely included as a convenience, since you generally can't link directly to a television episode.
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