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
on 4/16/07 1:05 PM, Andries Krugers Dagneaux at andrieskd@chello.nl wrote:
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
Thank you for this clarification, Andries. It does make good sense.
Marc