Talk:Walter Levin

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Citing an unpublished book and personal communication

This article was rewritten a few months ago as a "complete replace of preceding article; new article based on book cited (I am the translator) plus personal communications with the Levins, whom I have known for over 40 years", which is great, but we should tease out which information was taken from the 2011 German book, and hold back on everything else - we can't yet use an unpublished translation as a source, because it hasn't been published, and otherwise unpublished "personal communications" cannot be used as a source. --McGeddon (talk) 14:46, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment — I've never written a piece for Wikipedia before, so I'm new to this I will soon be replacing the current article on the LaSalle Quartet too, so this is good information to have about Wikipedia policy. I would suggest simply deleting the reference to the translation (now scheduled for May, 2014) and just leave the German book as cited. The only information in the article that is not in the book is part of the list of quartets that have studied with Levin. This information was obtained from Evi Levin, wife of Walter Levin (Walter is, alas, unable, for health reasons, to respond directly). I do want to say that am a little concerned that in a biographical article it is not considered legitimate for the author to include relevant information obtained by direct, personal communication with the subject (or, in this case, his wife of 60+ years). This seems to me to deprive any such article of one of the most important sources of information regarding its subject. And one of the glories of Wikipedia is the number of articles on people who have not for one reason or another yet warranted a published biography or do not appear substantially in the context of some other published work — "published" understood, I gather, in a quite conservative sense. — Some of the quartets I listed are also cited in the publisher's blurb at http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14448; it seems a pity to remove the others . . . . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardhowenyc (talk • contribs) 15:44, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]