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Hello, Zoldate and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Tomas e (talk) 10:53, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Machine translation?[edit]

Hello Zoldate! Thanks for your contributions on locations. However, after checking a couple of them, I must say that they require quite a lot of copyediting to be understandable, and I would not be able to make sense of them at all unless I could read the corresponding Swedish Wikipedia article. Are your contributions possibly machine translated from the Swedish articles? (The fact that place names have been translated as if they were other words is a typical sign of this.) If so, I would kindly ask you not to add raw, unedited machine-translated text to Wikipedia articles, because the result is not good enough to be understandable. Of course, contributions need not be perfect English, and you can use machine translated text as a starting point, but it is better if you add fewer articles that make sense. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 11:05, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]