[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Fred Bauder]

> I have access to a newspaper library through my library card, don't
> other Wikipedians have a similar access, or at least realise such things
> exist?  This idea that newspapers will lose utility as a source if they
> go behind pay-walls is a non-starter as far as I can make out, because
> that would imply we stop spourcing from books that people can't readily
> access, which would rule out huge swathes of stuff.  And anyone who
> removes a source because they can not access it wants shooting, you ask
> me.

Well, not shooting, but patient correction.

Fred