Talk:Vegetable flannel
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error in cited source
[edit]What do we do when the source the article is citing is plainly wrong? There's no such word in German as "waldwold"; the correct term for textiles made from pine-needle fiber is Waldwolle (Wolle means "wool"). This can be shown by doing simple Google searches--searching "waldwold" turns up this Wikipedia article, various copies and translations of it into other languages, and the original 1865 English-language source we cite here, but no German sources. Searching "Waldwolle" turns up plenty of German sources, including this one which gives the English translation. But I don't want to simply replace the current citation with this one, since the facts of how the "vegetable flannel" was prepared come from the current source, even if it does get the German word wrong. 206.208.105.129 (talk) 16:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hello! Thanks for flagging this up. I've checked and verified, and you're absolutely right. It's obviously a historical error so I've fixed it. Mabalu (talk) 17:57, 23 January 2015 (UTC)