policy that would back me up here and though i know that somebody's bot will probably do the dirty deed anyway no need to reply but if you want to do so please do here rather than on my talk page i hate pingpong discussions based on hello rigadoun your query raises a puzzle for which i would welcome your input i'm sure we agree that editing without a reference source is a terrible idea and articles should have lots and lots of in line references to indicate where all the material came from but what if all the material comes from one single reference source in such a case i could in principle add a footnote to every sentence which would cite the very same source but this seems a little bit inelegant and reader unfriendly to me i felt it better simply to declare once and for all that everything in the article came from the same source yours sincerely josef friedrich anton fleischmann hi i see you have just changed johann to josef however grove gives johann why did you put josef in fact i have asked an admin to change it to friedrich fleischmann which is apparently the usual short form and the one the german version uses best