[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

[Charles Matthews]

Joseph Reagle wrote:
> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Charles Matthews wrote:
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>> My comment was written late at night. But I don't really understand why 
>> the author thought (a) permalinks are uncool, but (b) paraphrasing this 
>> WP stuff and passing it off as my own and copyright is clearly cool. And 
>> issues this as an apology.
>>     
>
> I agree, permalinks are the way to go. However, I can sympathize with the ugliness of permalinks and access requirements, which are standard Chicago. If you have more than one Web resource referenced in a note (if you don't want every sentence to have a footnote), it's really difficult to read:
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[[TinyURL]], I would say. Do we take this into account in any advice 
"how to cite Wikipedia"?

Charles