Talk:André-Georges Haudricourt

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Kanguole in topic Text from ECLL article

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Text from ECLL article edit

Most of the text in this article seems to come from "Haudricourt, André-Georges (1911–1996)", by Alexis Michaud & Guillaume Jacques, to appear in Rint Sybesma, Wolfgang Behr, Zev Handel & C.T. James Huang (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden: Brill, doi:10.1163/2210-7363_ecll_COM_000143 (preprint). The text was added by User:AlexisMichaud, who is presumably one of the authors, but that is not sufficient for Wikipedia licensing (see Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations). Kanguole 13:14, 16 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Answer: Hi, yes it's me. The argument about the contribution to Chinese phonology is indeed similar to that set out in the encyclopedia entry; it is also similar to a text for a forthcoming book of collected papers of Haudricourt in English translation. As the Wikipedia page is continuing its life, and will be enriched by other contributors, I thought it did no harm to have some ideas from these sources. Credit for the observations about the contribution to Chinese phonology is essentially to be given to Guillaume Jacques, who is also active on Wikipedia. We shall do our best to provide useful contributions while attempting to steer clear of two pitfalls: plagiarism and publication of original work. It can be hard to steer one's course when enriching Wikipedia articles: materials cited from published works can raise issues for Wikipedia licensing, and materials not found in published works can raise issues if it is classified as 'original work', since Wikipedia is not a place to publish original work. --AlexisMichaud (talk) 13:22, 7 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for responding. The concern is more using the same wording, rather than ideas. For example, the biography starts off almost identical to the encyclopedia article. Kanguole 18:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)Reply