Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

Jorgen Grahn grahn+nntp at snipabacken.dyndns.org
Fri Mar 23 10:14:51 EDT 2007


On 21 Mar 2007 12:18:50 -0700, Paddy <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c57cfb7b3772763
> removed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest as it doesn't fit
> their guidelines for external links.
> I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
> so that it could be linked to?

Wikipedia should have some guideline for referencing Usenet postings,
somewhere ...

Anyway, it's a good thing to provide at least the Message-ID of the
posting. As an example, your your posting here was uniquely identified
by the Message-ID

  <1174504730.728688.52380 at y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

/Jorgen

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