User talk:Kate theobaldy

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Replaceable fair use Image:Max goldt2.jpg

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Ich bin ein Berliner

There is no way that this will ever be counted as a reliable source. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 19:01, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see what's wrong with that, but even less do I see why a source for this simple fact is supposed to be needed. This fact is mentioned in Berliner (pastry), too, and no one has ever doubted it. You can't seriously demand sources for obvious truths. Anyway, I'm going to post some more sources on the article's talk page. --kate theobaldy (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are very few obvious truths in an encyclopedia outside of the alphabet--the source obviously doesn't meet the requirements of WP:RS, and this isn't common knowledge. Besides, Wikipedia isn't a source for Wikipedia. But I look forward to your sources; thank you. Drmies (talk) 02:05, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, what is and what isn't an obvious truth or common knowledge is in the eye of the beholder. But I'm sure you would agree that in the article we're talking about here it would seem rather strange to clutter with references phrases like "U.S. president Kennedy" (was he really president?) or "East Germany erected the Berlin Wall" (did it really?). There's certainly some younger people on both sides of the "pond" who don't know either of those facts (try asking an average American high-school student what the Berlin Wall was and who built it exactly!), but they're considered "common knowledge" nonetheless. Likewise, that residents of Berlin refer to the pastry elsewhere known as "Berliner" as "Pfannkuchen" is indeed common knowledge in Germany, just like the fact that they call a bread roll "Schrippe", a sandwich "Stulle", or similar regional differences within the German-speaking area that are all duly covered on Wikipedia.

Besides, there was a small but decisive misunderstanding: I didn't propose using Wikipedia as a "source for Wikipedia" at all. Instead, I simply pointed out the fact that the statement whose truthfulness you're calling into question has been featured prominently, and remained undisputed, in an article that's bound to be on the watchlists of many German users, and is therefore unlikely to have survived for this long if it weren't correct, or commonly held to be correct. (To be sure, I'm not saying that dubious or plain wrong things can't survive for a very long time on Wikipedia, but when they do it's usually on more exotic topics that few people are able or care to verify.) Instead of as a proposed "source," simply consider the article Berliner (pastry) as one more piece of circumstantial evidence that a source isn't really needed here in the first place.

If you still insist that it is, apart from blogs etc., the listed sources (in the general sense, not Wikipedia's) also contain a few from mainstream media and other reliable publications (such as Christian Science Monitor, Berliner Morgenpost, Deutsche Welle (already provided by Hans), Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Radio Luxembourg, Bremen University, n-tv, de Volkskrant, and a book by a German-born and educated SUNY professor, Andreas W. Daum, on Kennedy's visit to Berlin.) You're free to include any of those in the article itself, although as already said, I would personally advise against it. Cluttering every other sentence with footnotes just detracts attention from them in the places where they're really called for. --kate theobaldy (talk) 09:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

Cats are always awesome, and so is your article, Direkte Demokratie für Europa!

Meşteşugarul - U 15:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pegida

I noticed that you made a change to an article, Pegida, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! JimRenge (talk) 16:01, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]