> From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com>
> I find it slightly astonishing that the RFC Editor's instuctions on
> URLs don't require a visited-on parameter. Just about every academic
> style guide requires such a note for the obvious reason that the target
> of a URL can change. The whole reason we have the citation traditions
> we do is so that someone can follow the reference later and look up the
> material in question. This is an important feature of any reference,
> because without it the citation is all but worthless: it does nobody
> any good if you include a citation and then nobody can check whether
> you understood (or even quoted) the material correctly.
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. And as someone else pointed out, there's a way to link
to _that specific version_. With most other web pages, there's no way to do
either one of those...
So maybe we should _encourage_ Wikipedia citations... :-)
Noel
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