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Moose etymology
[edit]Thanks for rewriting the etymology section of the moose article. It's probably much more correct now than before. Unfortunately Wikipedia has some peculiarities that many scholars find a bit inconvenient at first. One of them is that we are not supposed to use what we call "original research". This includes statements for which the source is a personal communication from an expert. Therefore the sentence where you cite that will be flagged as problematic sooner or later. Experts usually get away with some original research as long as their claims are uncontroversial and they don't make it too obvious. If you keep these things in mind your improvements to articles are more likely to survive in the long run. Sorry for bringing the bad news, and I hope it doesn't deter you form improving Wikipedia further! Hans Adler 21:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
While the etymology is out of place in the Einstein article, it likely would be a very good addition to wikt:Einstein. Cheers. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)