On Jul 12, 2008, at 4:50 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
No what I mean is you haven't cited .... anything. A table, a procedure, a rule, nothing at all except your own words. You.. are not a source.
There does seem to me to be a problem here, which is that we generally allow foreign language sources to be used if necessary. We assume that people who say they can read Japanese can when they cite a Japanese- language source.
Given that this, by all appearances, is a matter of basic reading comprehension in a foreign source, I am hard pressed to figure out how it falls under our sourcing guidelines in the first place. It's certainly a bit weird to say that you need a source for this but that Wikipedia editors can use foreign language sources themselves in other places.
-Phil