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Happy editing! ElderOfZion (talk) 15:43, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2025

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Aqurs1 (talk) 17:14, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have committed no vandalism. I meant what I did, and I shall be reverting your reversal. StopRejectingMyUsername (talk) 17:15, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, StopRejectingMyUsername. Sorry you had to learn about the perils of translating articles this way. Basically, when you translate material from one Wikipedia to another, there's a few things you have to keep in mind:

Other language Wikipedias may have different standards than the English Wikipedia. Other wikipedias may have different policies on copyright, notability, and how to treat articles about living people. Just because something is OK on the French wiki, for example, doesn't mean it's OK here.
Other individual Wikipedia articles may not be policy-compliant, even on their local wikis. I don't know if you've seen the essay WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS? That applies to content, too - just because somebody added it, doesn't mean it's sourced, neutral, copyright violation free, or useful. You need to check it's okay before you add it.
You must always credit the original authors of the content. On the draft in question, you did not do that - nobody but you had any idea where you got the content, or who originally wrote it. You need to make a note in your edit summary, providing a link to the original Wikipedia article, whenever you introduce material from other Wikipedia articles (whether on enWiki or not). If you forget, you need to make a dummy edit and list the original article anyway.

Anyways, as you've learnt, you're responsible for all content you add to enWiki; the buck stops with you. If you you're unsure about stuff like notability of articles, you can always submit them through WP:AFC for a sanity check, or ask a relevant Wikiproject for a second pair of eyes. If you'll let me give you one other piece of advice, I really wouldn't translate articles on sensitive subjects (including most |contentious topic) or crimes involving living people until you have a bit more experience, or are intimately familiar with the area and the sources. Good luck! GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 21:43, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have translated several articles into Wikipedia recently. The thought of crediting the source did come to me, but how do I do it within the article? Is there a template for that? StopRejectingMyUsername (talk) 21:51, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so within the article I'm not aware of any particular template. Where the attribution will go is in the edit summary. So, basically, in either of these boxes:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

Describe what you changed

You're going to copy-paste the URL of the original French Wikipedia article (or German Wikipedia article, or Japanese Wikipedia article), and state clearly that you got the material from that source.

What you can also do, which is wonderful and I'll love you for it, but technically not required, is also add {{translated page}} to the talk page. If you'd like, you can also use the content translation tool to automate the "crediting the original authors" process; it adds both an edit summary and a talkpage template. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 22:20, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I think the Talk Page template is great and is exactly what I had mind. The template has now been added to the talk pages to all the articles I made via translation recently, which are four in number. StopRejectingMyUsername (talk) 22:34, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]