Delirium wrote:
J.L.W.S. The Special One wrote:
I agree about systemic bias caused by requiring that sources be in English (or whatever language the Wikipedia is in).
I'm pretty sure there isn't any such requirement. Now if it's a subject on which tons of information *is* available in English, gratuitously referencing non-English material is frowned on, but on more obscure subjects non-English references are perfectly fine. I've written dozens of articles myself that reference non-English books and encyclopedias, and nobody's ever complained about that, so I'd be surprised if it were against some sort of policy.
At least there is no such policy that the normal ones of us would subscribe to. But you never know when someone will write such a policy, and bury it in some obscure page that nobody watches only to pull it out several months later saying that since nobody objected to it it must be valid policy. Maybe I'm just cynical. ;-)
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