Steve Bennett wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
>Some sort of referencing should be possible. For TV
or movie
>synopses, the text itself as an implicit reference is obvious
>and sufficient, for example.
How far do you want to extend this? For computer
games, is unreferenced
description of characters ok? What about of cheats and secrets? Of
songs, is discussion of lyrics ok? What about chord changes? Etc.
The big question: When is an unreferenced text better than no text?
Sorry, when I said "text" I meant the book, movie, TV show, etc, not the
article text. (I'm obviously suffering a mild infection of academic jargon.)
And for the answer to your question, I'm going to say: editorial
judgement. We can't Taylorise everything.
- d.