Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[volsung]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Imran Ghory wrote:

> On 19 Jan 2001, at 14:06, Mike Warren wrote:
> > "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > We also need to consider that we may not want to make this project
> > > web only. What if sometime in the future we wanted a physical book
> > > copy of this encyclopedia (This would mean articles that only work
> > > on the web should contain information saying as much in their
> > > headers).
> > 
> > No. This is meta-information which may change over time. For example,
> > it's not currently possible to put movies into books but it might be
> > at some later date. Saying ``this article can't go in a book'' is
> > predicting the future, and will probably get it wrong. This, like the
> > reviews and classifications, should be separate from the actual
> > article.
> 
> How about saying "this article is only text and graphics" ?

Can't that be easily determined by examining the contents of the article?

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Stan Seibert