User talk:Jiehong

Welcome![edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Capitaine Train[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Capitaine Train, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a foreign language article that was copied and pasted from another Wikimedia project, or was transwikied out to another project. Please see Wikipedia:Translation to learn about requests for, and coordination of, translations from foreign-language Wikipedias into English.

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Translate first, then publish[edit]

Hello, Jiehong, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. While you have added the page Capitaine Train to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. I see that you are translating it into English little by little. May I suggest, though, that in future you should translate content first, before adding it to English-language Wikipedia. The article at fr:Capitaine Train will still be there, but the copy in the English edition may face deletion. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 03:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jiehong: I've finished it. (Although the concealed list of independent sources remains, and the article could really use them.) I second what Cnilep says above: please do not put untranslated material into mainspace, even with a tag and a post at WP:Pages needing translation into English. It's offputting for readers to present them with text they can't read, and it's not nice to rely on the people at the noticeboard to drop anything else they're doing and translate an article for you. There are several better ways. One is to do the translation off-wiki, in a word processing programme. Alternatively, copy the text into a sandbox page, such as User:Jiehong/Capitaine Train; then when you have finished translating it, move it to the mainspace title using the "move" button. Another is to create it as you did, but instead of adding the "needs translation" template, translate the lead and comment out all the rest, then hit "save" - you can then continue working on it, making the finished sections visible at whatever speed you want. Thanks for the article, but please do it differently next time. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:24, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yngvadottir, Thank you very much for your help on translating this page. However, I didn't expect people to drop what they were doing, and start translating this page: I thought about doing it myself. Nevertheless, I shan't be doing it this way again, and I will follow your kind recommendations on the matter. Eventually, I will have a look, and integrate the remaining concealed sources. Thank you! Jiehong (talk) 09:41, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]