[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10

Mon Oct 3 18:48:07 UTC 2005

On 10/3/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/3/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have the phone number of my local library.
> >
>
> So supose I claim that "heterocycles can have many nitrogens but only
> one sulfur or oxygen in any ring" and cite page 1176 Organic chemistry
> Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers ISBN 0-19-850346-6. Now the book
> exists but your local libary may not have a copy so it takes time for
> you to get it. That is quite a lot of effort (fortunetly in this case
> the book is a fairly standard text book so there should be at least
> one other person who has a copy). This gets really fun when someone
> decides to reference something that can only be aquired from the
> public records office.

Your claim of course should probably be in just about *any* advanced organic
chemistry text book.

But supposing it was something more obscure. I don't see the problem with
citations from public records or reference books available through the
public library system. These are eminently verifiable.