In a message dated 5/24/2008 4:48:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, abd@lomaxdesign.com writes:
it seems many editors think so, which is why I'm troubling to respond here. The burden of sourcing what is in Wikipedia is on *all* of us.>>
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This thread, or at least my response to it, isn't about sourcing at all. It's about what to do with material *which is already sourced*.
The material, already sourced, is *in* the article let's say. Now you come across it and you say "my that paraphrase, etc is badly writen English", and you fix it.
Do you, since you are solely and only fixing "badly writen English" have to be yourself familiar with the underlying source from which it supposedly comes.
That's the question. I say that's a silly position to take. We can certainly fix badly writen English, without needing to be aware of what source, or any source, from which it comes.
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