Poissonrequin

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cyriac Auriol (September 11)

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Qcne (talk) 11:42, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Remora Production! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Qcne (talk) 11:42, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello ! Thank you for your kind answer. I am definitely struggling with wikipedia as I am very new to the plateform. I would really need to translate a french wiki page in english so it can be seen in USA. Would you maybe explain me how to do so ? It seems that I can't do it myself because my account is too new.

Thank you in advance ! Poissonrequin (talk) 14:07, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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November 2024

Hello Poissonrequin. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:Poissonrequin/Cyriac Auriol, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Poissonrequin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Poissonrequin|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. It seems you work for the article subject. EducatedRedneck (talk) 16:53, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello ! I am in an internship, I am not paid nor compensated. I would also like to clarify that I am not making edits or modifying information ! I only want to translate in English a page that was already written in French many years ago ! I do not want to change or add information, I just want there to be an english version. How do I do that ? I've been trying for so long to translate it myself but I can't... Can you please help me or guide me ? I do not want to break any rules whatsoever, I just want to ask for an english version ! Also, beginner users can't translate on their own so I have no idea what to do... 2A05:6E02:1047:610:813C:6D2A:8CB4:CC7A (talk) 10:03, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, the user above is me but i wasn't logged in !

Hello ! I am in an internship, I am not paid nor compensated. I would also like to clarify that I am not making edits or modifying information ! I only want to translate in English a page that was already written in French many years ago ! I do not want to change or add information, I just want there to be an english version. How do I do that ? I've been trying for so long to translate it myself but I can't... Can you please help me or guide me ? I do not want to break any rules whatsoever, I just want to ask for an english version ! Also, beginner users can't translate on their own so I have no idea what to do... Poissonrequin (talk) 10:06, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy ping @EducatedRedneck

Hi @Poissonrequin, even interns need to declare their conflict of interest and make a paid editing disclosure. This doesn't prevent you from editing the article, but it ensures transparency.

The guide to translating articles from other language projects is at Wikipedia:Translation. However, the English Wikipedia has much more strict notability and referencing requirements than other language Wikis, so what is acceptable over on the French Wikipedia may not be acceptable here on the English Wikipedia. qcne (talk) 12:14, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I am sorry if this is taking me some time to understand... but where exactly do I write :  ? Where exactly, on my profile, do I disclose this ? Poissonrequin (talk) 15:58, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh... here ? I just write it here then ? Poissonrequin (talk) 16:00, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I've added it your userpage, at User:Poissonrequin :) qcne (talk) 16:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

From the paid contribution disclosure page linked above, Interns are considered employees for this purpose. WP:COI has more general information, too.

As for your article, you've started correctly by making a draft. It's not ideal to have you working on it yourself, but nobody else is. The important thing is that you submit your draft through WP:AFC when it's ready, rather than put it into mainspace yourself. To get the article ready for AFC, you're going to need a lot more references. I don't see any in the current draft. There's also a lot of formatting to fix (terms that appear as [[Example]] rather than Example, for instance) but the biggest issue is that anything which isn't as obvious as the sky is blue needs a reference. EducatedRedneck (talk) 12:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain ! I will try my best. In the french page, there are many references but I didn't know how to include them in the english draft... I also wanted to know if there is a talk page where I can ask translators from Wikipedia if they have time to translate it ? Or maybe submit the french version of the page for translation ? Is there anything similar in Wikipedia ? Thank you again for your help and for replying to me ! Poissonrequin (talk) 15:50, 12 November 2024 (UTC)