[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Durova]

Good replies.

Usually in practice that generates one of two responses:

*Either the editor requests an interlibrary loan (or finds someone willing
and able).
*Or else the editor evades the suggestion and continues disputing on other
points.

In practice, it's an effective way to distinguish who's serious about the
project and who isn't.  I suggested interlibrary loan at a talk page the
other day and go an uncooperative response.

Lo and behold, there had previously been a conduct RFC and a positive
checkuser result for disruption at that article.  A new checkuser came in
positive also.  Today someone got blocked for a month.

-Durova

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/4 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> > 2009/3/4 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> >> 2009/3/4 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> >>> Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and
> >>> stock sold off that you don't have to get that obscure before you have
> >>> to turn to the rather expensive out of county loan system. For example
> >>> my county does not have a copy of:
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_This_Thing_Called_Science%3F
> >>
> >> Can we not assume the whole world is situated in the middle of North
> >> America, please?
> >
> > I'm kinda British.
> >
> > Most of the English speaking first world is in a reasonable shape with
> > regard to libraries. Outside that I'm not sure.
>
> Oh, sorry, where you referring to British counties (I'm not sure what
> the public library system is in Britain for this kind of thing - I'm a
> student so have access to university libraries and inter-library loans
> through that which aren't expensive at all - maybe even free)? I
> generally assume if someone doesn't say what country they're talking
> about then they mean the USA - it's usually a pretty safe assumption.
>
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