Talk:Yun Chi-wang

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Incomprehensible

The language on this page is so badly mangled it scarcely deserves to be called English. I certainly can't fix it, as I don't read Korean... but, perhaps more relevant, I don't read Chinese either. (Huh? Read on...)

The sidebar lists five other language wikis for the article:

Looking just at their layout, the Korean page is not surprisingly by far the fullest; it has a photo of a much older man and a biography (생애) that takes up 36 lines of the table of contents. But the layout of the Chinese page matches the English page closer than any of the others, so I suspect that the English page was machine-translated from the Chinese page.

I'm going to edit the page, but in the comparison below I'm using the unedited text:

The Simple English page is shorter than the regular English article, but at least it's clear and meaningful. Compare the lead section in both:

English: General Yun Chi-Wang(윤치왕, 尹致旺) (February 17, 1895 – December 21, 1982) was a Japanese ruler of Korean Medical doctors, scientists, South Korean Medical doctors, scientists, Soldiers, surgeons. His half-brother was Yun Chi-Ho. He was an uncle of Yun Bo-seon. Cusin of Yun Chi-Young. his nickname was Nampho(남포, 南圃), courtesy name was Sungun(성운, 聖雲).
Simple English: General Yun Chi-wang (February 17 1895 – December 21 1982) was a South Korean politicians, solder and gynecologist. He was the half brother of Yun Chi-ho, uncle of Yun Poson, 4th president of South Korea.

Sheesh!

I have edited the page into readable English, using the material from the Simple English page where relevant, and making where necessary my best guess at the meaning behind the previous mess, but I'm not always sure I've got it 100% correct. I have left the previous text in, in HTML comments, paragraph by paragraph.

I've asked for help on the WikiProject:Korea Talk page.

--Thnidu (talk) 15:36, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]