[Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

Ziko van Dijk vandijk at wmnederland.nl
Sat Feb 25 01:18:39 UTC 2012


Those people who would like to write on Wikipedia about any subject
can write a book or pdf about it. It does not have to be a scholarly
work in every aspect. And then, the Wikipedia in language X can decide
that it accepts this kind of literature as reliable. (Those various
standards are not uncommon in the different Wikipedias.)
Not everything has to happen *in* Wikipedia.
Kind regards
Ziko



2012/2/25 Castelo <michelcastelobranco at gmail.com>:
> On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>>
>> Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
>> their books. That's what historians are for.
>> Kind regards
>> Ziko
>
> Ziko,
>
> there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially on
> some traditional oral history. They love to write about what other
> historians like, and the unpublished content remains unpublished.
>
> If i understood correctly, Oral Citations Project doesn't intend to replace
> books. Its focus is on what is not covered by books.
>
> Amike,
>
> Castelo
>
>
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