[Wikipedia-l] Central bibliography

[Ray Saintonge]

Bogdan Giusca wrote:

>I suggest that we use the name instead of the ISBN, because
>it can be seen more clearly in the text, when reading the
>wiki-text. Also, there are many books (especially older
>books, but not only), which have no ISBN number and some
>which have many different editions with different ISBNs.
>
>There is still the problem with two books with the same title,
>in which case we need to add the author, too, for disambiguation,
>but I think this problem is less on the kind of books we use for
>reference. Shorter titles are used especially for fiction.
>
I have never been keen on ISBNs either.  In addition to older works that 
never had an ISBN in the first place, works with a long history of 
different editions can have any number of ISBNs, and at some point it 
would be helpful to be able to compare various editions.

Ec