Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-18014300-20170717032044/@comment-31667997-20170726112634

I'm with Sol on this .... I think (..... can I call you just Sol?)

The way I see it, citation by design is just the person using it saying "I got this info from here" end of story. Whether the piece of information is true or whether the source is reliable is not being questioned by it.

That comes either before citing it - done by the person citing it; or after - done by the reader/editor. And that's when the library books, textbooks, official websites, several language versions of sources, etc. come into play. You find the info, compare several sources and if it matches you cite the one accessible to anyone, whether it is Ubisoft website/article, some magazine article or if all else fails Wikipedia. After all, isn't it better to know where some nonsense came from, rather than thinking that someone just made it up?

Citing Wikipedia for what's not explicitly said in the AC games and other AC stuff is the easiest way to give the reader a chance to learn something new and check the info for themself. Just because it can be edited at any time, doesn't mean it's all wrong all the time. Aren't there people checking up on things just like here? If someone doesn't know, care, or notice how the Wikipedia works, I'm sorry but they're too young for the internet (actual age being irrelevant here).

And if someone believes anything they read without thinking, like say, Madrid is the third salmon outpost on Saturn, there's little hope for them to begin with ....

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On an irrelevant footnote (kinda), hi, I'm new here and I volunteer myself to check and compare info from different sources if anyone is interested. I'm not much for editing myself (coward), but I want to help around here somehow. And I've got quite a library at home. (Also, as you might be able to tell by the strange use of gender neutral pronouns, I'm such a girl and I feel weird writing himself when I want to write herself and such, hence the strangeness of my style *shrug*)