Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English

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See also: Wikipedia:Translation, Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation, Wiktionary's quick translation

This page is a place to list foreign language articles on the English Wikipedia, to see if they can be translated before they are listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If someone speaks the language the article is written in and can state that it is not worth translating, the item should be moved to AfD or tagged with {{prod}}.

[edit] Standard procedures

If the article is a mere copy of (all or part of) an article in a foreign-language Wikipedia, it can just be tagged with {{db-foreign}} to get added to Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion: we want to discourage people who cut articles from one Wikipedia and paste to another without translating. If the intent is to ask for a translation of an article from a foreign-language Wikipedia, the correct place to do that is Wikipedia:Translation. As an alternative, you can leave a message on the contributing user's talk-page using the templates from Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English/Templates for user talk pages or using {{UE}}.

Sometimes, legitimate articles are replaced by foreign-language content. In this case, the last English-language version should be restored from the history.

If an article has been listed here for two weeks and is still untranslated, it should be moved to AfD. When moving items to AfD, the boilerplate text on the article should be changed from {{notenglish}} to {{subst:afd}} and the other deletion steps should be carried out.

When listing a page here, you might want to find the Wikipedia:Embassy or Ambassador member of the Wikipedia that relates to the language the article is in and invite them to move the page to their own Wikipedia. If you don't even know what language the article is in you could use Language recognition chart and if that fails, some language recognition web site, such as xrce to find out. Please leave a note on this page if you do this to prevent duplication of messages. If you have come here from another Wikipedia, please note on this page what you think should be done with the article.

Please check for copyvio before listing here. (Articles which meet the criteria for CSD G12 can be speedily deleted with {{db-copyvio}}, others copyvios should be listed on WP:CP.) If you can tell what language an article is written in, that might help. Also consider posting the first line or so.

When a page listed here has been translated, its entry can be removed (or moved to cleanup if the translation needs another pair of eyes).

[edit] Boilerplate text

For a page that needs translation in its entirety (so it would be appropriate to delete if not fixed):

1. Use the notice {{Notenglish|NameOfLanguage}} if you know the language used, or {{Notenglish}} if you cannot identify the language of the page in question. The template will show up as:

This article needs translation into English. This article is written in a language other than English. If it is intended for readers from the community of that language, it should be contributed to the Wikipedia in that language. See list of Wikipedias. Please see this article's entry on Pages needing translation into English for discussion. If the article is not rewritten in English within the next two weeks it will be listed for deletion and/or moved to the Wikipedia in its current language. If you have just labeled this page as needing translation, please add {{subst:Needtrans | pg = Pages needing translation into English | Language = unknown | Comments = }} ~~~~ to the bottom of this section of Pages needing translation into English.

2. Add a mention on this page, using:

{{subst:Needtrans| pg= | Language=NameOfLanguage| Comments= }}--~~~~ replacing NameOfLanguage with the English name of the language if you know which language was used, or {{subst:Needtrans| pg= | Language=unknown| Comments= }}--~~~~ if you cannot identify the language used

3. You may also choose to warn the contributing editor with {{Uw-english}}, the "use English" warning, or suggest to use a different language Wikipedia with {{contrib-xx1}}, where xx is the language code (available templates). An alternate template for identifying the article as having been listed here is {{uw-notenglish}}. Usage is {{subst:uw-notenglish|articlename|datein2weeksfromlisting}}~~~~.

If there is just a section that needs translation, that notice is inappropriate, so it's a little trickier:

1. Use [[Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation]].

2. Add an appropriate note at the top of the page in question, e.g.:

''Section [[#name-of-section|name-of-section]] contains text that needs translation into English.''.

3. Add a mention on this page.

If the article has been translated, but needs attention from someone approaching dual fluency in both languages:

1. Use the notice {{cleanup-translation}}, which will show up as:

This article contains translated text and needs attention from someone approaching dual fluency. Please see this article's entry on Pages needing translation into English for discussion. If you have just labeled this page as needing such attention, please add {{subst:Duflu | pg= Pages needing translation into English | Language = | Comments = }} ~~~~ to the bottom of Pages needing translation into English.

2. Add a mention to the translation cleanup section on this page.

[edit] Pages for consideration

[edit] May 16

[edit] Gülün Ruhu Balesi

The language of this article is unknown. Ballet I think, Something to do with Théophile Gautier Jac16888^Talk 23:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

• Turkish. --Cbdorsett (talk) 06:23, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 19

[edit] La Civiltà Cattolica

Most of the article is in English, but there are sections that need to be translated from Italian. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 20

[edit] Vladan slijepcevic

The language of this article is Serbian. Probably a good candidate for transwiking Jac16888^Talk 23:43, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 21

[edit] Fenrich

The language of this article is Croatian. (at least, that gives a plausible Google translation). History of a noble family. Unsourced. Not in :hr JohnCD (talk) 15:46, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure there was another article about this family on here a few weeks ago that got dealt with--Jac16888^Talk 00:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 26

[edit] Farmakoinfo

The language of this article appears to be either Slovenian or Bulgarian (according to language identifier site). IrishFBall32 (talk) 15:20, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

About medicine or therapy, some kind of clinical report. Screams copyvio but I can't find a source--Jac16888^Talk 15:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

The part in Cyrillic is clearly Macedonian. The part in Latin alphabet is most probably also Macedonian in a wrong character code.  Andreas  ^(T) 16:01, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 27

[edit] Rawatan dadah

The language of this article is Malay. Something to do with drugs, looks like another copy-paste Jac16888^Talk 18:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 28

[edit] José-Manuel Montañés

The language of this article is Spanish. I assume this is an autobiography, based on the username that added this page. Still not to certain about the content - machine translation seems to indicate spam at least Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 11:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 30

[edit] Translated pages that could still use some cleanup

Pages listed here are "mostly done" but could still use some attention from someone who approaches dual-native. Please use the notice {{cleanup-translation}} on the page.

[edit] February 2009

[edit] Ali Jasiqi

The initial language of this article was Albanian. Kosovan writer. I've done my best to rewrite but some of it read as if badly translated or machine translated. I'm still a bit confused as to which of his writings were short stories, which were novels and which were works he edited. Itsmejudith (talk) 21:51, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] March 2009

[edit] Olędrzy

The initial language of this article was Polish. Worth a (talk) 21:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tenore contraltino

The initial language of this article was Italian. This article is a translation from Tenore contraltino in the Italian Wikipedia. It's in English, but needs some polishing for idiomatic English expression and to ensure that the meanings intended in the original have been successfully expressed in the English version. Preferably needs someone with expertise in opera or classical music. Voceditenore (talk) 11:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Marxist Group (Germany)

The initial language of this article was German. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulWalter (talk • contribs)

[edit] April 2009

[edit] Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo

The initial language of this article was Portuguese. Wavehunter (talk) 17:10, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Aloisiuskolleg

The initial language of this article was German. Nearly the whole article from "Languages" onwards needs improving WhoAmI2009 (talk) 02:56, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Picked it up a bit, untouched from Influences of the Church and onwards. MLauba (talk) 07:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] List of Doraemon 2005 series episodes

The initial language of this article was Japanese. It appears to have been uploaded as a machine translation — CactusWriter | ^needles 06:33, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 2009

[edit] Medellín

This article, albeit well written, has likely been written by a Spanish speaker and as such needs an English speaker to correct a few translation errors. When I have time I may get on it... Simon Kilpin (talk) 12:37, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I've made a start of it and tried to simplify the English. About half way through. But will certainly need second pass to check references and also any slips I have made. I've added some links, removed overlinks, as far as I've got so far SimonTrew (talk) 12:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I should add maybe my Spanish is only so-so but for this purpose it is quite like French translation, it's sub-editing more than anything, moving words around, removing redundant articles, that kind of thing. I agree it is well written. I'm just tidying up really like I would any other article, not specifically for translation. But once I've done the donkey work someone else can then do some blue pencilling after? SimonTrew (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Aleksey Vysotsky

This is a machine translation of this Russian Wikipedia article, which needs cleaning up by someone who can read the original. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Taken a shot at cleaning up this translation. My Russian is a bit rusty, so anyone who is a little more current is invited to give it a close reading. Hа здоровье - Williamborg (Bill) 03:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Comeback (TV show)

The language of this article is Czech. This article is in Czech language and need translation. Oniongas (talk) 11:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

• Has been mostly translated, but it's fairly rough, and still needs cleanup from someone who's fluent in both Czech and English --Miskwito (talk) 00:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tusculum

This article is in English, but several portions appear to be direct translations from on the Italian Wikipedia. Some of this article is in good shape, but there are a lot of grammatical and spelling issues strewn throughout. While I can read the Italian version, I'm nowhere near fluent enough in the language to tackle a better translation of the more confusing passages myself. • WarpFlyght (talk • contribs) 13:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)