User talk:Gedackt

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Welcome

Again, welcome! You might be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany or Wikipedia:WikiProject PipeOrgan. I'll continue to look over your edits, but if you have any specific questions let me know. Country adjectives are always written with a capital letter "He is a German organist." in english. Happy editing! Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 15:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hope everything is going well! I'd like to discuss the subject of references (Wikipedia:Verifiability). I see that you in a few articles have referred to German wikipedia as your source. It is great that you are translating articles, but as long as there are no independent sources they will be considered unsourced. We always need to be able to verify the information in our articles, and there is no way for us to know where the information in the German wikipedia came from. So if someone tags your translations, don't remove the tag but try to find a book or a magazine article that can verify the information. Best wishes/ Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 19:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about this source: [1] ? Accepted in English WP?--Gedackt (talk) 19:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me, sources don't have to be in English. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 19:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Place? Discussion? In the German WP it is common to set the sources a. in the Edit summary or b. in the discussion ([2])? --Gedackt (talk) 20:04, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can put the sources there also, but you really need to have the references in the article. The best way is to use footnotes (possibly combined with a bibliography). Take the Celine Dion as an example of notes+bibliography. In smaller articles having footnotes is often enough. The Wolfgang Seifen website is not a good source since it looks seems to be his personal website (Wikipedia:Reliable sources). / Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 20:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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