Previously, on Buffer …QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 26th January 2011, 2:20pm)
Argghhh! (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/frustrated.gif) If generals keep wasting men by fighting “the last warâ€, the counterpart in education is in preparing students to face the world of yesterday. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/tearinghairout.gif)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 26th January 2011, 3:12pm)
Like the way Wikipediots use a format for citations that was already being defecated, er, deprecated when I was in high school, for no better reason than gangs of junior high school geeks thought it would be Awesome to Awetomate it.
QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 26th January 2011, 4:19pm)
Please expound on this, in a new thread. I am always confused and fascinated by the various methods available for citation on Wikipedia. Jon, which is the “wrong†way, and which is the “right†way?
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 26th January 2011, 4:31pm)
I'm out of time till later tonight, but this thread is okay, since it's more or less appropriate for media studies.
There's a more general point here — I think I even wrote a series of mini-essays on the subject back in Wikipedia Days under the heading of “The Automobile Was Not Invented By Putting Roller Skates On A Horseâ€.