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This article appears to have been direct machine translated from Polish to English, with little attempt to account for style differences between the two language projects. In the process, some content appears to have been lost in the translation, perhaps due to the style differences. In particular, the footnote have not been attributed to author cited in the Polish version of the article and now appear to be editorializing footnotes, without a cited source, rather than what they should really be, which is in-line citations. Also, the Polish source has been translated into English, rather than being left in Polish and providing an English translation in addition. While an article can be translated, the citations should remain in their original language, perhaps with an English language translation provided. Otherwise, it becomes more difficult to find the original sources once there is link rot or the link is usurped by the target website, as has happened in this case. The source being referred to appears to be Kryptonim "Zemsta" - okrutne zabójstwa chłopców, which appears to be a blog. This means the link to the cited source is in error in the original article, too. Due diligence needs to be paid to existing citations to ensure they do still refer directly to the cited sources and that the target sources have not changed since first being cited. Editors translating articles should verify and review the citations included in an article still exist as at the date of translation, or otherwise tag them with an appropriate cleanup tag. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 04:26, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the general reference with a deep link direct to the source in question, not via the index page of the website. I have used a citation template to draw the citation metadata from the cited source to verify the URL is suitable, too. This source is in Polish, not English. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 04:50, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]