[Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...

[Gautam John]

Srikanth - if I can enlarge the scope of this problem:

1. Wikipedia has errors
2. These errors are because of the sources cited
3. The sources cited are factually wrong
4. There are no sources online to offer a counter or have a limitation
of copyright.

Does that some it up?

Assuming there are pictures that hold a differing view, why can't
those be linked to to get around the issue of copyright? Similarly, if
there are articles online, why can't they be linked to?

Of course, if there are no references online, then we do have a
problem but has that ever been the case? Where there are *no*
references online?

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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On 11 September 2011 14:52, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have had this problem for over two years and I belive that this
> problem is unseen in most cases and will remain so untill addressed.
> There are many cases where incorrect facts are shown with references.
> This is purely due to lack of sources. I noticed this back in 2009
> when I found that according to all available sources, the only
> concrete trunk road in India is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. This I
> know is not true. The East Coast Arm of the Golden Quadrilateral has a
> few concrete sections, confirmed with photographs on the websites of
> the National Highways Authority of India and the Nagarjuna
> Construction Company. Apart from this, I personally have seen that the
> Hubli Belgaum Toll Road Private Limited, Pune Satara Toll Road are
> also made of concrete. Now since I couldn't use these pictures as
> sources, mainly due to copyright issues and that I wasn't into
> photographs at that time, I ignored it. Recently I thought I could try
> and use the Oral Citations on this little issue and see, but after a
> chat with Achal yesterday I dropped the idea as it would need to be
> authoritative or in short I'd need a government official to talk. This
> as I've experienced earlier, isn't an easy task. Therefore, I place a
> request here for people to suggest something, as this problem is
> rising unchecked ...
>
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>
> Regards,
> ME.
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