On 16/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Folks,
Real quick question: Is there any problem with using a foreign
language WP
Article as a source in the English language one? In this case it's
birth &
death dates.
I don't think we are meant to use ourselves as sources. Certainly
using an
internal link as a source is not allowed, so I would guess a link to
another
Wikipedia/WMF project would be similarly frowned upon. Where does the
other
Wikipedia get its source for the DOB? - you could use that?
You should cite the non-English Wikipedia article in the reference unless you have personally checked the sources listed as references in the non-English Wikipedia. Not doing so would violate [[[WP:CITE]] that states "It is improper to copy a citation from an intermediate source without making clear that you saw only that intermediate source. For example, you might find some information on a web page which says it comes from a certain book. Unless you look at the book yourself to check that the information is there, your reference is really the web page, which is what you must cite."
Andries