“ The general principle for already published works is that there must be a "clean" copy separate from the annotated version. If we try to apply that principle to user-created translations, then we're effectively requiring every user-created translation to be created in two copies in cases where the person intends to annotate the translated work. It would be a huge roadblock to translators, and would inhibit the very kinds of translations we've mostly seen to date. A user-created translation is fundamentally a different kind of hosted work from a previously published one. ”

“ What would the ideal approach for an annotation policy be?--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 08:44, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Comments (overall) I think the easiest places to begin are (1) the general scope of this policy, and (2) deannotation, as those are probably the least controversial and most easily handled sections of this draft. Those two sections are also unlikely to bleed over into the specifics of other parts of this policy. Then we need to decide what the overall goals we wish to achieve, and what we wish to avoid. ”

“ Deannotation The current draft of the annotation policy says:
Deannotation (stripping the annotation out of a published version) is allowed in very limited situations. All of the following must apply:
No unannotated version of the work is known to exist. The work has never been published without annotations or the unannotated version is unavailable for other some reason. The complete original version (with the original annotations) is hosted separately on Wikisource. All annotations are removed, leaving only the unannotated work. ”