Happy Easter!

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March 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Drive Barnstar

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  The Minor Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to BananaCarrot152 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Can you help verify translations of articles from German

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Hello BananaCarrot152,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from German to English Wikipedia?

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This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original German article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including German , using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from German. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

  1. Josef Löwy  Pass
  2. Joseph-Bernhart-Gymnasium  Pass

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the German article, and assess them "Pass" or "Fail" (the {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} templates may be useful here). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then assessing it, that's even better, but it isn't required.) Also please note that we are assessing accuracy not completeness, so if the English article is much shorter that is okay, as long as whatever has been translated so far is factually accurate.

If you can help, please {{ping}} me here to let me know. You can add your pass/fails above, right next to each link, or you may indicate your results below. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 06:55, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Mathglot: Both pass, i also made minor improvements. is there a list of articles that need to be checked? happy to help. BananaCarrot152 (talk) 22:03, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! There is a list, and I can send you a link, but in order to manage multiple responses there's some procedures to go through if you want to access the list directly. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send it to you. There's about 200 in the list, of which about half are done, I think. In the meantime, here's another ten for you:
  1. Technical Naval Museum at La Spezia
  2. John of Neumarkt  Fail
  3. Tibet Center Institute
  4. Xaver Bayer  Pass
  5. Jean Lenert  Pass
  6. Gillis Hooftman
  7. Helge Slaatto  Pass
  8. Namika
  9. Psycho Village
  10. So You Want To Write A Fugue?

This is a volunteer encyclopedia, so needless to say, if any of these look boring or don't interest you, just skip them. We appreciate your efforts! Mathglot (talk) 03:46, 21 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Mark WikiProject Linux as inactive?

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Hello, BananaCarrot152

Thank you for creating Right to an effective remedy.

User:HouseBlaster, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thank you for creating this article! Very thoroughly cited. The next steps would probably be to expand the geographical scope discussed (such as talking about other countries), but this is a great start

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@HouseBlaster: Thank you for your kind words and encouragement! I will keep at it. :) BananaCarrot152 (talk) 19:02, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for writing said article! I was honestly surprised we didn't already have an article on such an important human right, but I am really glad we have one now! Happy editing, HouseBlastertalk 19:08, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Texas two-step bankruptcy DYK

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Hi! Great job on Texas two-step bankruptcy! I think it would make a great Did You Know. You have a week or so to nominate after putting a draft into article space. Best, Thriley (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Texas two-step bankruptcy

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On 25 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Texas two-step bankruptcy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a solvent company can access the bankruptcy courts by doing the Texas two-step? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Texas two-step bankruptcy. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Texas two-step bankruptcy), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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