[WikiEN-l] Reliable sources— some of these babies are ugly

[Philip Sandifer]

On May 21, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Ian Woollard wrote:

> On 21 May 2010 04:40, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> While this is not a reply specifically to what Greg raises, it
>> is a fact that we aren't just giving the cold shoulder to
>> "silent knowledge", but also stuff written down in a language
>> not our own, when it happens to exist.
>> 
> 
> That's not quite true, you are allowed to add references to material written
> in foreign languages, and I've seen it done a few times.

Permission, however, does not anywhere close to adequately translate into execution. We do not exclude non-English sources on a policy level, but on a social level, we heavily do.

-Phil