Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History - Page 2

Paddy

I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....57cfb7b3772763
removed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest as it doesn't fit
their guidelines for external links.
I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
so that it could be linked to?

Tim, would you object?

- Paddy.

Mar 21 '07

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Jorgen Grahn

On 21 Mar 2007 12:18:50 -0700, Paddy <pa*******@goog lemail.comwrote :

I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....57cfb7b3772763
removed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest as it doesn't fit
their guidelines for external links.
I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
so that it could be linked to?

Wikipedia should have some guideline for referencing Usenet postings,
somewhere ...

Anyway, it's a good thing to provide at least the Message-ID of the
posting. As an example, your your posting here was uniquely identified
by the Message-ID

<11************ *********@y80g2 000hsf.googlegr oups.com>

/Jorgen

--
// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
\X/ snipabacken.dyn dns.org R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Mar 23 '07 #11

Paul Rubin

Jorgen Grahn <gr********@sni pabacken.dyndns .orgwrites:

Wikipedia should have some guideline for referencing Usenet postings,
somewhere ...

It has one (WP:RS). The guideline is don't do it. The problem is
that these guidelines arise out of disputes, i.e. maybe someone tried
to use a Usenet post to prove something about a politician, and the
result (reasonably) was a guideline that said Usenet posts weren't
reliable sources of info. In the cases where it's something ok, the
editors use common sense and leave it alone. Until that bot got loose
and started removing all Usenet links whether they were ok or not.

Mar 23 '07 #12

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