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I read French and I sometimes see things that could be asked on Skeptics. Is it a problem if the article/book/other making the claim is in French, and if no English equivalent can be found ?

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I don't see any problems with this, though you should provide a translation of the important part containing the claim. You post needs to be understandable by someone only speaking english, but sources can be in different languages.

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Sources don't have to be in English. It would be useful for you to provide a translated quote of when the claim is made, for users who don't speak the language of the source, but it's not mandatory.

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It should be OK as long as there's a somewhat reliable way of telling that the claim translation (which, as other alluded to, ought to be required) is accurate - either the poster is bilingually fluent, or it's a language that one of the standard translation web services is reliable with (and the language isn't too technical/idiomatic to trip up Google Translate).

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