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Hi Janet,
One thing that most of us (who are generally only English speakers) don't
take into account is that a lot of the rules that we have on Wikipedia
are actually English Wikipedia rules. Verifiability, notability, etc
guidelines are pretty broad, but some language Wikipedias may choose to
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Oh, and on the other topic you raise, you're thinking of Oral citations.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research%3aOral_Citations
Unfortunately, it didn't end happily on English Wikipedia as it was just
too much of a cultural leap for everyone to make, which is why you don't
see them anymore.
Oral histories are better being recorded, stored separately and then used
for citation of quotes rather than pure reference sources, I think creating
a Wikitionary Noongar language would be a better fit with en articles
covering noongar stories and inclusion of Noongar stories, names etc in
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Received: Saturday, 8 March, 2014, 10:52 PM
On 8 March 2014 21:54, Craig
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For what it's worth
Interesting that the question about whether oral history was a valid source
came up at yesterday`s Paralympics workshop in Melbourne (great day by the way
for anyone who can get to today`s session).
If someone publishes an oral history do they usually verify facts before
publishing? We thought
