On 16/04/07, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)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