At 07:16 AM 10/2/02 -0700, Fred Bauder wrote:
When I wrote [[Great Salt Lake]] I got most of the facts out of an issue of High Country News. I put that down at the bottom of the page, but for my trouble got a rather persistant inquiry as to whether I had copied the article from there, i.e. wasn't this a copyright violation and had to spend time saying no, I had just extracted the facts from there. T
If you'd said "based on information from High Country News", I'd have known what you meant in the first place. And it was only a "persistent inquiry" because copyright violation is our big no-no and you ignored my first query.
hen they removed the information that that was the source of the information. So I kind of got out of the habit after that. That's kind of petty since information on Great Salt Lake is kind of common. Now, especially if I work from a book I just put it in '''Further Reading'''. It would help in lots of cases for checking information if we all did get into the habit of citing sources though. Sometimes it can be kind of ephemeral like a NPR interview, but even then at least one might know.
In general, I think this is a good use for Talk pages.