User talk:65.94.171.126

Mexican beer dermatitis

Thanks for the references you posted at the requests for the verification of Mexican beer dermatitis and margarita dermatitis. References only count towards the three necessary for verification if they are durably archived. This includes those published in paper or in usenet, but excludes those that only exist in websites.

BTW, have you considered creating an account? It’s always good to have people who make good contributions around. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 02:37, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Radio/TV station broadcasts are archived onto tape by the station, and transcripted, so exist in the real world. TV broadcasts for syndicated shows like "The Doctors" are sold to television networks, so exist in the real world, as distribution episodes. BBC archives itself internally. JAMA, NEJM, USA Today are all paper publications. NPR is a US government entity that governmentally archives its broadcasts. The Canadian Dermatological Association archives itself, and is a medical association, with all that entails legally.

What about archive.org and similar web repositories? -- 65.94.171.126 07:19, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for answering. The reason published material is considered durably archived is that, once a book/newspaper/etc. is published in paper it’s practically impossible to track down every copy. In the case of Usenet, it is archived in a special manner so that any message is stored in various servers around the globe. Similarly, it is practically impossible to shut all the servers down. As for web repositories, archive.org has been rejected outright due to the ease of getting content removed from it. Webcite has been more promising, but two votes on accepting it failed (WT:Votes/pl-2012-08/Citations from WebCite and WT:Votes/pl-2012-10/Quality of sources). — Ungoliant ^(falai) 13:31, 15 July 2014 (UTC)