User talk:Chuffable

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Questions

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Is translating articles from the English Wikipedia straight to another language version allowed? Chuffable 10:52, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not only allowed, but encouraged; see Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination -- plenty more users with the same intentions. Of course, I wouldn't recommend using only online tools like Babel Fish or Google Translate, but I presume you're referring to other languages in which you're reasonably fluent. --DeLarge 11:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reasonably, yes. :) With the help of dictionaries... I made a stub into not-a-stub that way, and I was wondering if I ought to have alluded to the original version in some way, as a source verification thing. Thank you, I will continue translating! Wikipedia is so fun! Chuffable 11:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That not-so-stub is here, by the way. Chuffable 11:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, that job is done by the "interwiki link" to vo:Arie de Jong which you can see in the left-hand column under In other languages. Verifiable sources should be entirely independent of Wikipedia (see WP:SELF for why we discourage "self referencing"). Regards, --DeLarge 11:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! Chuffable 11:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]