Andrew Gray wrote:
On 11/06/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, English sources are preferred when available, but Turkish ones are perfectly acceptable for Turkish subjects. Policy doesn't force English sources where they don't exist -that would be systematic bias.
...yes. But acceptability of sources can't magically make someone who can't read Turkish able to tell if a given article is usable as a "source" or not. Simply saying "there's lots of stuff in Turkish, some of it could be usable" does not a source provide.
At the end of the day, the "sources" (a conceptually bad name, but let's skip that) for an article have to be provided by someone who knows what they're talking about, and is willing to think about the matter for a while.
OK. Finding all the Turkish language material may not be enough to provide the actual verification, but what we need is that the material be verifiable. Verifiable is a somewhat lower standard than verified. What we don't want is for people to use "I could only find Turkish language material" as the sole excuse for deletion. Such an excuse has the same level of brilliancy as "I've never heard of it."
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