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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Questionable Source Cites
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:54:06 -0400
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Rae Jean wrote:

> Maybe incorporating the statement "This material is not documented." into
> the citation detail would be appropriate when citing findings from the web
> or emails (or anywhere else for that matter). IF I'm remembering correctly,
> John's Utility for 4.0d will let you append or prepend statements to the
> citation detail of citations. Then everyone including me would know the type
> of information I'm citing... unfortunately even I forget after a time that
> the person did not cite their sources. <g>

When ever I get information from another, whether off a web site, email, or hard copy, that does not explicitly cite sources, I try to learn from that author what I can about
sources. As you say, that's very often nothing. Then I document what I learn in the Comments in the Source definition. Then I modify the full footnote template to add the
[Comments] element if it isn't there already, so if I print something that cites that source, the reader will know what I know. Lack of information means nothing is known about
that source, at least in my data, and thus I assume the worst.

Terry Reigel

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