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We're so glad you're here! Meatsgains(talk) 03:14, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Help me
editI got a warm welcome from meatsgains but no response on my queations:
The article about Simon Moulijn was published in Dutch, German and English.
My problem at present is, that only in the english Wikipedia the number of footnotes is reviewed as to small. Before writing this article I have been looking at several articles in the english Wikipedia about artists and especially painters in the Netherlands. Naturally if you write about Vincent van Gogh you will be able to document nearly every footstep but at least any major changing in his attitudes by some source and often also from different sources. But if you write about Simon Moulijn, even although he was one of the outstanding Dutch artists of his time it will be difficult to find different sources for each step in his life. Naturally I can produce more footnotes if that seems to be necessary. But is a text "He was born" (footnote 1) brought up by his parents (footnote 2) started studying at the xy Academy (footnote 3) really more reliable and more scientific as a text were these three facts are in one footnote?? In fact all reliable sources about Simon Moulijn are in Dutch. This makes checking after the source more difficult.
I already have problems to document his friendship with the english lithographer John Copley, although they exchanged several lithographs. Because of this problem I did not mention it in the article even if it would be interesting for british readers.
In fact I do not see why the sources of the article remain unclear as the list of references I added is rather complete.
I will be very glad if you can help me with this. Thank you