Pony Express Rider / Discussion

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Sources?

r_b_bergstrom 02 Jan 2013 20:16

Since there's a quote on this page of the oath that Pony Express Riders have to take, it might be a good idea to include a bibliography entry for whatever book that oath was quoted from.

The Colonel 03 Jan 2013 17:12

C&P'd from the fount of all knowledge, but I'll put a link to that in…

r_b_bergstrom 04 Jan 2013 20:55

I know that wikipedia is kind of a default "duh, of course I looked there" source, but we really should include links to it to in the bibliography block of our pages. This is especially true if we quote from them. Both as a courtesy to those who put in hard work over there, as well as to cover our own butts should it turn out that some random editor at wikipedia was plagiarizing, libeling, lying, etc.

Anyhow, thanks for the link. I moved it to the bibliography block so that it would match our default formatting, as explained in the Arcana Wiki Style Guide.

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The Colonel 10 Jan 2013 11:30

No question, it was neglectful of me not to reference a direct C&P.
I'm not usually good at citing sources because I tend to write entries from memory and then only go and look it up afterwards to see if I forgot anything - but given that this one involved a direct lift I quite agree that I should have acknowledged my source.