Epimandios
Biography references
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I have access to a considerable amount of information which would allow me to considerably update the entry on Charles Leach. The information is all contained in a biography of him. Do I need to quote the original source reference or just the book? Please notify me on my talk page. Thanks. Epimandios (talk) 09:20, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
- You should cite the biography from which you obtained the information, not whatever sources the biographer may have used. In general, one should never cite a source that one hasn't seen; see WP:CITE#SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. That said, one can sometimes cite both; for instance, if the biography includes a direct quotation from an unpublished letter written by Leach, and you want to include the quotation in the article, you could use a citation of the form "Charles Leach, letter to John Doe, 2 Aug. 1900, qtd. in Richard Roe, Charles Leach: A Maniac for All Seasons (Rutland: Idle Press, 2005), p. 99" (alternatively, you could mention the date and recipient of the letter in the running text and cite only the biography in the reference). Deor (talk) 12:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The article Darcy Press has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Unsourced since creation in September 2009. I can't find any sources and even their website no longer seems to exist.
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