[WikiEN-l] Are phone books reliable sources?

Mon Jun 5 02:22:51 UTC 2006

On 6/4/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> >I just looked at the new Scientific American (ah, the advantages of
> >working in a library) and skimmed the article.  I may have missed it
> >but I don't see any instances of the author citing Wikipedia as a
> >source.  The article does include a link to Wikipedia under a list of
> >"More to Explore" weblinks, which seems an entirely proper use.
> >
> This all depends on how rigidly you look at the term "source".
> Scientific American does not typically have a lot of footnotes, but it
> does give opportunities such as this for further exploration.  Are you
> saying that this makes the magazine less credible?

Please don't put words in my mouth.