Vítor Cassol
Citation on the meaning of the Brazilian Real's name
editHi,
Being a born and raised Brazilian person myself, I find that a citation where you requested one is unneeded as it is mere common sense to us. I decided to be bold and remove the request; feel free to readd it if you have concerns, at least as a temporary measure while we address them.
Here is my related statement in the talk page and here is the edit in the actual article.
Best regards,
Vítor Cassol (talk) 19:24, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
- Mmm, Brazilian real implies naming directly from a royal, but Brazilian real (old) says it was simply named after the Portuguese real. Common-sense notions of history are often wrong, so I'd still like to see some scholarly citations. -- -- Beland (talk) 16:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, wait. Let me go two steps back here. The paragraph is actually terribly worded. What is "generally considered" isn't relevant to facts in the first place; "generally considered" is a clear case of weasel wording, and it got the better of me, so I ended up attacking the wrong problem. D'oh. It indeed does need a citation. While looking for a way to fix the weasel wording problem, I stumbled upon a source that may solve the problem of lack of citation; I think I'll put it there and also rewrite the paragraph to keep to relevant facts while I'm at that. I believe this here article suffices to cite the entire paragraph. In particular (my emphasis):
"We called it a Unit of Real Value — URV," Bacha says. "It was virtual; it didn't exist in fact." [...] Still, people used URVs. And after a few months, they began to see that prices in URVs were stable. Once that happened, Bacha and his buddies could declare that the virtual currency would become the country’s actual currency. It would be called the real.
- What do you think of it? Should I go ahead? I don't want to put an irrelevant source there right after you requested the citation again, so I figured it was better to ask. (Also, please note I'm not precisely used to working with Wikipedia, so I'd be really thankful if you could point me to a reference template I can use to make my life easier.) -- Vítor Cassol (talk) 17:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)