on 4/16/07 8:37 AM, Florence Devouard at Anthere9(a)yahoo.com wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 4/16/07 8:15 AM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm at
macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com wrote:
It's not a good idea to use another language
Wikipedia as your source. That
would make spreading misinformation far too easy.
Instead you should find where they got it from and cite that as a source
(even if it's in German). If the article is translated from the German
Wikipedia, it's a good idea to mention that in the references section,
though.
Thanks, That approach feels better to me too. Right now I'm Googling it to
death to see what I can find.
Marc
The funny thing is that the bigger languages wikipedia are frequently
used as source for smaller languages wikipedia, with full translation of
article :-)
Interesting sidebar to all of this: I went in and changed the source from
the German WP to the only other one I could find,
artfacts.net, and was
immediately reverted by a bot. It seems reference to this site is prohibited
in WP. They read me Miranda, and I was off to the pokey ;-). It seems
ignorance of the law is no excuse :-) The Article is back where it started.
Marc