Thewar364

Automatic translation

Hello, I note that you have introduced a number of articles translated from the German Wikipedia. There are two problems with these: first, although there is no problems with copyrights when translating from another Wikipedia, you have to note in the edit comment field that you are doing this in order to give credit to the authors of the original version (the German one in these cases).

The other problem is with using automatic translation. Google Translate, Babelfish and other similar translators are usually not up to doing an adequate job of translating a complex, specialized text from one language to another. They tend to leave a string of sometimes obvious but often rather subtle translation errors. In the end it requires someone knowing the original language to comb through the text in order to fix these; in practice, it amounts to manually re-translating the whole text. And if that doesn't happen, the errors can remain for a long time and mislead people. Other users may polish the text, making it less obvious that it was translated, but if these users don't know the original language the errors are still likely to remain.

I don't want to seem discouraging, and I can understand why you want the English Wikipedia to have these articles, but if you need to rely on machine translators to translate from German, you should perhaps consider working on topics that don't require a knowledge of German. --Hegvald (talk) 19:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Reply Hi, thanks for the talk. I need a German translator to be frank, but i need this reaserch to gain other pieces of research, preferably in English. I do plan at some point to get arround to sorting out these posts, but currently i am too busy to do so. This information is currently the only english notes on these people. Could you help with translations? I currently have a number of music scolars and libarians following up on leads for me, but all these leads come from these translated pages, so i think these are totally neccisarry for gaining an accurate page on these people Thewar364 (talk) 19:40, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I read German and could translate something if I need to, but I have a few other things I want to spend my wiki-time on. --Hegvald (talk) 17:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and your latest opus, Duke George II, plagiarizes Encyclopaedia Britannica. How can you possibly believe this to be acceptable? It is also completely redundant, as there is already an article on the Duke: Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. --Hegvald (talk) 18:02, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Duke George II

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Translating content from one Wikipedia article to another

Main page: Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. :) I understand that you are working on translating some articles from one Wikipedia project to another and might need some assistance in giving proper credit to the originals.

The edit summary field appears above the "Save page" button.

The procedure is not that difficult, although it can seem daunting when you first start. Basically, what you need to do is give credit in the "edit summary" by adding text like this: "article translated from [[:de:example]]." You put the name of the article on the German Wikipedia where example is written. We also recommend that you put a note at the article's talk page indicating where it came from. Can you please add a note like that for any articles you've already translated? We have to give credit to recognize the legal rights of the original contributors.

By the way, if you are looking for assistance in translating, you might find it at Wikipedia:Translation. The talk page of that project is a gathering point for contributors interested in this kind of work. If you try and don't find somebody there, please come by my talk page. I'm happy to try to help you find others to assist.

As a final note, I see that you may have copied content from another source into Wikipedia, in the article marked for deletion above. Please be careful about this; it's okay to copy content from other language Wikipedias as long as you give credit because this content is licensed so we can use it. But most other websites and publications are not. Please see Wikipedia:Copy-paste for a brief overview of the rules regarding copying content. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:33, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Meiningen Court Orchestra for deletion

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Copyright problems with Augener's Edition

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Note that the apparent source wiki licenses their content under GFDL whereas we now require ours to be licensed under CC-BY-SA and GFDL (or just CC-BY-SA in some special cases). Dpmuk (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

REPLY Hi, thanks for taking the time to attempt to educate me on copyright laws. As you may have realised, yes this is a part copy of the IMSLP page on Augener's. Bravo!

Now, we could discuss the short comings of both Wikipedia and IMSLP, to not being able to merge their information, but sadly, nothing will happen!

I have taken the main content from IMSLP and created it on Wiki to then be able to link to the wiki encyclopedia and expand this stub. IMSLP are about freely distribution out of copyright scores, not so much about the information regarding the editors or publishers. I am putting it on here to get/ gain the information that is lacking about said editors and/ or publishers.

If you would like to go to said article on IMSLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Augener) you shall see 'Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.' bottom of the page, in the center.

If im not mistaken this means I am well within my rights to copy it from IMSLP and post in on WIKI... I appologise that I have not yet had time to put 'Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.' on the WIKI page yet, I have to spend time reply to sad people who have nothing better to do with their lives than point fingers!!!

As you seem so distraught by the fact that it isn't there, feel free to put it on the page, I don't have time to do it myself, other reaserch/ work I need to do takes priority!

I will however take the time to stop the page from being deleted as I believe it should be accessible to everyone, and the database of edition no., titles etc. that I have collated, that in time I will upload.

Problems???

P.S. you will notice that I have began to add my own imput to the article...

Thewar364 (talk) 12:39, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

REPLY Looks Like I was too late, Woops!!! O well, the catalogue information etc. is availible from myself. Anyone in need please feel free to message/ email me and we can discuss PAYMENT.

'Wikipedia... allowing users to silence freedom of information because said users are sad & pathetic!'

Thewar364 (talk) 12:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Guido Pederzani Von Gumer

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No indication of notability and fails [{WP:MUSIC]]

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