on 4/16/07 7:49 AM, Gary Kirk at gary.kirk(a)gmail.com wrote:
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?
>
>
Interesting. Neither of the two sources the German Article cites lists the
full dates of B&D, only years; so I don't really know where the author of
the piece got the full dates. BTW, the Article in question is on the painter
[[Hans Hansen]].
Marc