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[Mark Williamson]

Also, while I'd have no qualms about citing 三省堂言語学大辞典セレクション:日本列島の言語 in
an English Wikipedia article, I would be wary of including it as a
"see also", even though it is the standard reference work and is a
billion times better than the most comprehensive English-language work
on the topic, "The Languages of Japan" by Masayosi Sibatani, because
that assumes that the majority or even a significant number of readers
will be able to read it, which isn't true.

Mark

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:59:01 -0800, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> >Whenever somebody adds a random cite to an article written mostly or
> >entirely by me, I remove it unless I actually DID use that source.
> >
> So no one is allowed to touch the article references section except
> yourself? That's a little possessive, to say the least. Suppose I
> check your claims against my reference, find them good, see no reason
> to change the text, and add the reference as a token that I've done
> the checking?
> 
> References are there for *other* people to use; if you've neglected
> to mention the standard text that readers should look at if they want
> to know more, then other editors need to be able to fix your mistake.
> 
> By your reasoning, we could never add to the references section
> for an article written two years ago by someone who has since moved
> on, nor could a 1911EB-derived article ever get updated references,
> at least not without casting a resurrection spell first...
> 
> Stan
> 
>