[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[Anthony]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I like that.  Make Google Books just one of the options.  I can see a
> potential problem if we're trying to cite a convenience link directly to a
> page number and the book has multiple editions.  We'd need to know the
> ISBN.  If the repository is Google Books, does it actually state the ISBN or
> give some way to find it easily?
>

It's generally on the title page, right?


> It wouldn't be a good thing if we make it much more complex, nobody would
> do it, and we'd have a maintenance nightmare.


References are already too complex, probably.  Personally I just add a <ref>
tag with as much detail as I can come up with, and let someone else worry
about formatting it.  That seems reasonable.