Talk:Orlan

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Removal of unconfirmed "birth name"
This seems to be a classic case of circular sourcing:

Please compare this version of Orlan’s biography from the French WP to the uncredited piece on the France Inter website recently introduced as a source in both her French and English WP BLP. They are virtually identical.

The unsourced statement "Son vrai prénom est Paulette Du Brouet" ("her real first name is …") was first inserted into the French WP article on January 21, 2012 by an IP account with exactly this one contribution to its name and reinserted several times since by User:TwoWings, an account mostly active on Commons.

A google search for "Paulette Du Brouet" yields a total of 19 hits, most of them from Wiki mirror sites. It is therefore highly likely that France Inter copied the January 2012 version of the French WP article, given that they don’t list an author on their site and are replicating the same mistake as that version of the French WP BLP ("son vrai prénom"). I would expect a reliable source with editorial oversight to be able to tell the difference between a first name and a full name. However, if the France Inter piece came first, the "Biographie" section of the French WP article would constitute a 100 percent copyvio. DracoE 05:08, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * Orlan par Fabrice Lévêque 1990-1a.jpg
 * Orlan par Fabrice Lévêque 1997-1.jpg
 * Orlan par Fabrice Lévêque 1997-2.jpg
 * Orlan par Fabrice Lévêque 1997-3.jpg