On 4/16/07, Alex Regh <Alex.Here(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:31:29 -0700, Silas Snider
wrote:
If one kind find no sources, one should not put
the fact in the
article! This is basic citing policy.
Wasn't that exactly the question? Whether another WP is a potential source or
not?
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I should have clarified -- since Wikipedia requires sourcing for these
kind of facts (see below for my reasons why this is a good idea) we
should use the source from the foreign language wikipedia and not the
wikipedia itself. If for some reason, the sources are less precise, or
do not contain the data they are claimed to, then the information
should be deleted from the foreign article, not added to the english
article to assist (intentionally or not) in the promulgation of an
inaccuracy.
It's not a question of unsourced articles. The other Wikipedia is a
source. It's own material is subject to that Wikipedia's own sourcing
rules. You can cite those sources too if you examined them yourself,
but if you only use them transitively you should note that fact too.
Ec