[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/2009 1:22:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com writes:


> Yup, there is a reason the WJhonson at aol.com mails still have a killfile 
> chez moi. Managing to miss the point that if a link appears broken to 
> anyone in the world it might simply get removed seems a fundamental 
> error. It wasn't about whether I'm deprived of the info, but what form 
> of citation is good to have on Wikipedia for this patchy service.>

And you seem to be missing the point, my pointy friend, that you should 
always cite to *your* source, not their source.

If you read it on Google books, then you should credit google books.  
That's standard citation practice.

Will "the point buster" Johnson