[WikiEN-l] Foreign language WP as a source

[Ray Saintonge]

Silas Snider wrote:

>On 4/16/07, Alex Regh <Alex.Here at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:31:29 -0700, Silas Snider wrote:
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>>>If one kind find no sources, one should not put the fact in the
>>>article! This is basic citing policy.
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>>Wasn't that exactly the question? Whether another WP is a potential source or
>>not?
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>I should have clarified -- since Wikipedia requires sourcing for these
>kind of facts (see below for my reasons why this is a good idea) we
>should use the source from the foreign language wikipedia and not the
>wikipedia itself. If for some reason, the sources are less precise, or
>do not contain the data they are claimed to, then the information
>should be deleted from the foreign article, not added to the english
>article to assist (intentionally or not) in the promulgation of an
>inaccuracy.
>
It's not a question of unsourced articles.  The other Wikipedia is a 
source.  It's own material is subject to that Wikipedia's own sourcing 
rules.  You can cite those sources too if you examined them yourself, 
but if you only use them transitively you should note that fact too.

Ec