[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Durova]

That would be brilliant.  Great idea!

Fwiw, I have a query like that for anyone who has access to the local
records of Roubaix, France.  Trying to find the birth and/or death dates for
Jean Desbouvrie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Desbouvrie

Possible April Fool's FA here; small topic.  The available sources provide
limited information about his lifespan.

-Durova

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/4 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> > Two words: interlibrary loan.
> >
> > -Durova
>
> That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
> large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line
> resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens
> of vast libraries a bus ride away.
>
> Is there a page on Wikipedia where one user (a rural user, let's
> presume), can ask for an offline reference to be checked ("can you
> check this page of this book for this statement/fact")? If not, might
> it be a useful service to offer?
>
> I, for example, live in London and have easy access to a number of
> large university libraries and the British Library (if the resource is
> especially obscure). It would also be possible to scan in the relevant
> page of a PD/uncopyrighted book, as proof of the reference, for
> example.
>
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