[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

Thu Nov 3 11:55:45 UTC 2011

2011/11/3 David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com>:
> A tool which pops up asking for a URL, author and date would be a rich
> source of bad references.  We should rather be looking at ways to get
> references to books and journal articles.  Web references should be
> the exception rather than the rule, because the vast majority of
> websites are not WP:RS.

Problem is a lot of books are rather questionable. However dead tree
worship means people generally ask fewer questions. The reality is
that your average person is unlikely to access to journals and only
have books to hand on a narrow range of subjects. Under those
conditions the web is by far the most likely viable source of
citations.

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geni