On 12/4/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This makes me very nervous, as I envision people
challenging all sorts
of what are now unchallenged, acceptable sources because they can't be
bothered to go to the library and check out a widely available book.
We already have the situation where some sources (ie, web sites) are
obviously much more verifiable than others (books). Why would
converting some of the latter into the former suddenly make the whole
system implode?
No way am I going to start scanning things in. This
sort of thing
should only be reserved for unavailable sources in controversial
articles (things that probably shouldn't be used in controversial
articles anyway, but that's another issue) and if we set up a system
for it, it will encourage people to use and demand this sort of
verification. AGF and a library card should suffice.
I wasn't actually suggesting forcing or even encouraging people to
scan stuff in. But for people who already *have* it, or *want* to,
there is actually no way to do this.
The situation that crops up more often for me is taking photos of
information plaques at tourist sites - I use the information on them
later on to write the article, and would like to make the image
available for someone who wants to verify what I've done, or possibly
to expand on it. I don't think copyright is an issue. Nor is anyone
going to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometres to do it, for what
is a pretty trivial article.
Now, I *have* the image. Where do I put it?
Steve