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delete as author - It has served its purpose and has now been superceded by current formatting.
Simply south....
..walking into bells for just 6 years 23:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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delete, all redirects.
Frietjes (
talk) 18:15, 11 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was no consensusPlastikspork―Œ(talk) 22:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)reply
This is a hard question. One the one hand they are alike. On the other hand, proofreading is more specific in that it doesn't include other forms of clean up.
Debresser (
talk) 09:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)reply
It could be, but IMO the difference is too subtle to keep two separate templates. Basically both templates suggest to do similar work on a article, I mean to read and correct mistakes after translation. I think it is not really clear which template should be used in the particular case.
BTW There is also another template
Template:Rough translation, however it should be used only on articles with machine translated text. --
DixonD (
talk) 10:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Cleanup-translation also directs the editor to post a notice to the bottom of
WP:PNTCU section on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English but Proofreader needed does not request notification of the broader community or other multilinguals.
Proofreader needed could be used simply when proofreading, not translation is needed, and could be similar to "{{cleanup}}," "{{cleanup-rewrite}}," or "{{copy edit}}." These writing functions are different from translating.
In conclusion, at least keep Cleanup-translation. - ʈucoxn\talk 09:27, 2 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Please note that this discussion is not about deleting both templates but about merging them into a single one. --
DixonD (
talk) 11:46, 2 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Noted. That is what I understood from the introduction.
To illustrate the differences, I'll use English wikipedia articles that have been influenced by the French wikipedia since that is the second language I know best.
Here is an example of the "{{Proofreader needed}}" template being used correctly, at least as I see it.
Ozymandias the Great did a fine job adding a translation of the
Important theories section from the
french article. Notice that there is no french language text and that
very few changes, especially regarding grammar or syntax, needed to be made to that section. Notice that the copyediting changes to the Important theories section are wikifying, bold font, comma placement, quotation mark addition, like→which, and spelling correction of "mechnical" [sic]. Of course, other more substantive information-related changes have also been made to that section, which are neither of a translation or copyediting nature.
On the other hand,
here is an example of when the "{{cleanup-translation}}" template was used rather appropriately. You'll see that the user who added the template (
Itsmejudith) has significant knowledge of French. Also, the seven more recent edits after that were made by a user who is a native French speaker (
Pierre.alix).
This edit, by the same native french speaker, even lists in the comments that it was "Rewritten in a better english (based on French article as I am French native speaker)." You'll see that some other editors to this article (
Piccolapixxie,
Omar-toons, and
me) have significant knowledge of French. Although I cannot speak for the others, I noticed this article because it was posted on
Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English, which is what editors are directed to do when they use the "{{cleanup-translation}}" template: "If you have just labeled this page as needing such attention, please add {{subst:Duflu... }} to the bottom of the
WP:PNTCU section on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English."
Merging these two templates would mix translation work with copyediting work. Translation requires dual fluency, or something extremely close to it. Copyediting requires fluency in the target language. Please keep them separate. - ʈucoxn\talk 23:00, 2 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Makes sense if to change wording of the the Cleanup-translation template appropriately. But in this case
DGG is probably right, the Rough-translation template would become a duplicate of this one basically. --
DixonD (
talk) 08:21, 3 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Do not remove. Cleanup of a translated article requires more than proof-reading. Proofreading in general requires only a good knowledge of English grammar. Cleaning up a machine translation requires also a reasonable knowledge of the source, because most machine translations are so bad that they leave some matters ambiguous or even some words untranslated--the level of knowledge depends on the type of article.
On the other hand, I am not sure we need both cleanup-translation and rough translation. Most translations that need cleanup are in fact machine translations. DGG (
talk ) 20:51, 2 December 2012 (UTC)reply
In this case the Cleanup-translation template requires better wording in order to state what you said. Should we add the Rough-translation template to the discussion here? --
DixonD (
talk) 08:21, 3 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I agree with
DGG that most translations that need cleanup are machine translations. I believe a more appropriate discussion is on the merger of the "{{Rough translation}}" and "{{cleanup-translation}}" templates. In this case, I would still prefer most of the language from "{{cleanup-translation}}" with the addition of some elements from rough translation and improvement on one other element. Please let me know and I can propose what I think would be a good combination of those two. Also, there are over 100 pages currently using the "{{Rough translation}}" template, about 50 pages using the "{{cleanup-translation}}" template, and about 35 pages using the "{{Proofreader needed}}" template. Merging rough translation and cleanup-translation would probably have the biggest positive effect. Should I wait for this merger to close and another to open with "{{Rough translation}}" and "{{cleanup-translation}}" before proposing my idea for the merged language of these two templates? - ʈucoxn\talk 09:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Might be useful to see a bit more consensus before closing this discussion and working on the alternative I proposed. - ʈucoxn\talk 21:05, 4 December 2012 (UTC)reply
In my opinion it is enough consensus for closing this merger and opening a new one about merging {{rough translation}} and {{cleanup-translation}}. Also it could be worth to think about merging {{proofreader needed}} and {{copyedit}} (as it is stated in the comment below) --
DixonD (
talk) 09:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Plastikspork―Œ(talk) 01:52, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was no consensusPlastikspork―Œ(talk) 21:57, 16 December 2012 (UTC)reply
band has 2 albums, dont need a template for that few articles. Naut Humon is likely not notable, Z'EV has no referenced mention of the band in his article, and the other 3 links are not appropriate for a navbox
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 04:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep. I have added references to Naut Humon's page enforcing his notability and have written in Z'EV's page a brief description of his involvement in Rhythm & Noise. This template links several related notable articles together and should therefor be kept.--
Soul Crusher (
talk) 07:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete: I firmly support the idea that Naut Humon and Z'EV are notable, but that does not that mean that this template is useful as a form of navigation. It's basically just "I want my favorite to have a navbox, too" fankwankery. There are not nearly enough articles available to put into this navbox to warrant its existence. — SMcCandlishTalk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 15:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment, while i am now pretty well convinced that Naut Humon is notable (thanks to SC), that doesnt really lessen the rationale for deleting this template.
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 18:31, 30 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment. I do not appreciate the suggestion that I created this template simply because I wanted my "favorite to have a navbox", such a comment is unjustified. I created it because I felt that five articles is sufficient enough where having a template might be beneficial to users. If you don't feel five is ample than how many would you recommend?--
Soul Crusher (
talk) 07:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete Only four directly related articles isn't enough for a navbox. Navigation from the stub article,
Rhythm & Noise, remains simple enough. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 07:23, 3 December 2012 (UTC)reply
keep, has enough links. if you don't think the articles are notable, then take them to AfD.
Frietjes (
talk) 17:43, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Plastikspork―Œ(talk) 01:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep - small but there is enough.
Simply south....
..walking into bells for just 6 years 23:39, 11 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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