User talk:NicoleB2

Welcome!

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Thank you so much Mathglot, I really appreciate your warm welcome and your links!! NicoleB2 (talk) 18:36, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About translation attribution and referencing

Hello, NicoleB2. It's great that you are working on a translation of Philippe Clay, thank you for that. However, Wikipedia has a couple of very important principles that you need to understand, before you go any further in your translation. One involves our core principle of WP:Verifiability, and the other is about attributing the translation to its original authors.

Verifiability

Verifiability means that all content in Wikipedia must be verifiable in a published, reliable source, and the way to demonstrate that, is through the use of citations to those sources you used.

The original French article, fr:Philippe Clay, has some citations in it you can import, such as this one to Who's Who. Other citations are incomplete, like this one that merely mentions Who's Who, without any other information; however, as it refers to the same article as the first citation, it ○an be linked to the previous citation using named referencing, so please link that one to the first one, when you import it.

Please do attend to this, as all unverifiable content will need to be removed from the article, including any part of the content of your translations for which a reference that backs it up cannot be found. But if you add citations for it, then the content can remain. Verifiability is important, and it's worth taking the time to complete the referencing of Philippe Clay, before you continue further with this article, or any other one. See Help:Referencing for beginners.

I would recommend that you stop translating this French article for now, and go back over the parts you have already translated, importing the citations from the French article where possible, or adding new ones where available. I have translated many articles from French, and I can help with translation, if that is an issue, and with how to create citations. These links may help you find some:

Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
France sources: Bing · Cairn · DuckDuckGo · E. Universalis · Gallica · Google · (books · scholar) · Persée · Qwant

Attribution

In addition, Wikipedia's licensing requires that all material translated from another Wikipedia contain an attribution statement in the edit summary of your edit, linking the original French Wikipedia article; for exact wording of this statement, please see WP:TFOLWP. It looks like alert reader Diannaa noticed the lack of translation attribution and added a notice retroactively, so your translation edits previous to November 3 are now covered, but please remember for all of your translations from French Wikipedia (or any Wikipedia) that these attribution statements are required, and may not be ignored. Please see WP:RIA for how to add an attribution statement retroactively, since you were not aware of this requirement when you started translating it.

If you have any other questions about editing Wikipedia, you can ask at the WP:Teahouse, or at my Talk page. Mathglot (talk) 18:51, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Attribution, I have added "existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Philippe Clay; see its history for attribution." in one of my edits once I read the rule. NicoleB2 (talk) 19:18, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]