[Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

[Wjhonson]

The logical flaw here comes between "use" and "translate".
Although Wikipedians may and probably sometimes do, translate Wikipedia pages, from English to French etc, translating a source citation is something quite different.

I would agree with Ray that we should quote Latin texts in Latin, Spanish texts in Spanish no matter what language-page we are using.  IF the text is that important to English speakers then there should be or probably will soon be, a verifiable English language translation *not* created in-project, but rather by a reputable author publishing just such a translation.






-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
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Sent: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 12:03 am
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge


LOL. If that's the case it would be a good reason for changing the OR 
olicy. It would also make sense to quote non-English sources in their 
riginal language unless the translation itself is verifiable.
Ray
On 07/27/11 4:36 PM, M. Williamson wrote:
 Well then, Ray, en.wp would not be able to use non-English sources since all
 translation is interpretation and would therefore be considered OR which is
 not allowed at Wikipedia.

 2011/7/27 Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net
> On 07/27/11 12:42 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
>> David how is an exact quote a summary or interpretation?
>> An exact quote, backed up by the actual audio track is... exact.
>> You are not summarizing it, and you are not interpreting it either.
>> You are presenting it.
> If that is to be the case the exact quote MUST be in its original
> language.  All translations require interpretation.
>
> Ray

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