User talk:GerritEicker

Re: Paul Otlet
(Sorry, didn't see your email till just now; my talk page is usually a more reliable way to contact me about WP-related issues.) WP:EL suggests that weblinks/external links are considered somewhat second-class to proper reliable sources. And an online copy of an article in a reputable newspaper would certainly qualify as the latter. Another rule of thumb is that "sources" are normally considered to be static, or at least not expected to be further updated: the article is based on information present in the referenced document at the time it was accessed. Examples would be news stories, books, scientific papers, etc. On the other hand, weblinks typically reference dynamic documents that are expected to keep evolving independently of the WP article, but are likely to remain relevant to it: official home pages, links to other databases (e.g. IMDB), and other potentially useful future sources of information. But don't worry too much about the distinction -- there are a lot of borderline cases where one could argue either way about how to classify an external document. Happy editing! Hqb (talk) 19:38, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for this information and links. --GerritEicker (talk) 07:43, 29 June 2008 (UTC)