[Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

Castelo michelcastelobranco at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 18:30:15 UTC 2012


On 25-02-2012 15:58, Michael Peel wrote:
> Actually, Wikipedia sort of is the place for original content - when it comes to illustrations in articles.
Those illustrations are mainly in Commons, with exception of the images 
in fair use, but linked in the articles. That kind of original content 
also plays a minor role, only "illustrating" the article, but we cannot 
reference a sentence as "vide image", for instance.
> It's possible to envisage audio recordings being used in appropriate Wikipedia articles along the lines of 'listen to a fisherman from the coast of Shandong talk about his work', more in the current role of pictures/photographs rather than as references.
In this case, the audio files will be in Commons, too, and as you 
pointed, won't be used for referencing a specific assertation in the 
text. It will be, just like images, illustrating the written content, as 
we do now with music samples in musicians biography[1]. I suggest 
transcribe the interview for Wikinews and use it in inline citations, as 
in {{cite news}}, for i) easier checking than by {{cite video}} and ii) 
facilitate translating.

Castelo

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dickinson#Singing_style



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