User talk:ExecutorElassus

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"Hi! Welcome in Wikipedia! I think it's normal you didn't find any reference to that work: I took it from an Italian magazine I buy every month. I think we should avoid considering everything which we cannot find in Google as not existing! Ciao and good work!"

The above note was left anonymously in reference to my edit on the entry for Borso d'Este, which had previously cited a reference I couldn't locate. Lest anybody think me lazy, I was - in addition to google - unable to find references to the previously-cited magazine in worldcat, JSTOR, or the library databases of two regional libraries. I don't dispute that the magazine may exist, but it's important to me that I can check sources for things I read. If I can't even find the source, or even find if it exists, I can't check it (and nor can anybody else check my own work if I do the same). I also said nothing about whether or not the magazine existed: rather, that I coulnd't locate it myself. But let's take this up on the talk entry for that page instead, okay? Cheers, ExecutorElassus (talk) 20:24, 10 September 2011 (UTC)