On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:03:57PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Actually, as someone pointed out, in some sense dated URLs to Wikipedia pages > are in fact _superior_ to most other Web URL references, because in Wikipedia > you can go back into the history and see just what the page looked like when > the author visited it. Yes, but you can only do that if (1) the author uses the particular-version URL or (2) the author includes a visited-on note in the citation. It's lovely, however, that in wiki-based systems you do have this ablity, and I agree that it'd be nice to encourage its use. (Now I'm going to crawl back into my bibliographic maniac's hole and stop talking about this.) A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf