User talk:Kristintanith

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Quoting/citing, and sources
Hi. In this edit, you say you're quoting Bodine's daughter.

First, is this really a quotation? (Roughly speaking, are you using her words?)

If so, you have to use quotation marks for a short quotation and block indentation for a longer quotation.

If not, then you're citing her and not quoting her.

Whether you're quoting her or just citing her, you have to say precisely where she wrote this.

But actually you probably can't do any of this, because a person's daughter (or son) is not an independent authority on that person. Still, there could be an exception if for example the daughter wrote this within an essay that's part of a book put out by a respected independent publisher. Please see WP:RS. -- Hoary (talk) 02:15, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I removed the section I'd added on Bodine. The inserted text had come from an email his daughter distributed to promote a show earlier this year. Independent source, Kathleen M.H. Ewing wrote a book about Bodine, (published by John Hopkins University Press, 1985). It includes a "biographical remembrance" by Harold A. Williams. I will redo my edit using this book as the source. --Kristintanith (talk) 19:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)