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

[David Gerard]

On 29 July 2011 19:19, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why can't you do both?
> Provide the original text in the original language in the citation, followed by a translation. Any bickering over the quality of the translation can be dealt with through consensus on the talk page, while the original is still there for those who want the original to do their own verification of the translation.


This is what is usually done at present. Hence my boggling at
WJohnson's bizarre suggestion to overuse a rule to break usefuless to
the reader.


- d.