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Hi, thanks for translating this article from the French wikipedia. However, the standards here are different: basically every claim made should be cited with an inline reference to a reliable source, with page numbers, date, and where appropriate publisher and url. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:21, 2 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
So, editing Wikipedia is the art of making paraphrases. I'm disappointed. Why? Because if I attribute a claim to a certain author then it should be quoted verbatim and not a paraphrase (otherwise it's a distortion or a pointless substitution of words for synonyms). IMO, the ideal would be to read many books and then write what one understood from them, and give credit to the books one have read by listing them as the sources of one's understanding. Maybe the problem is with me, but it seems impossible to do what you said in a non boring way unless one first writes the article and then starts to search for authors who said the same things (it can take many weeks to reference an article...) Too boring. Weimer (talk) 04:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
