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June 23

Anyone fluent in Faroese here?

I'm going to create two stub articles related to My Little Pony at the Faroese Wikipedia. I proposed them in English at fo:Wikipedia:Undirhúsið#My Little Pony, but I've got no response yet. Could someone fluent in Faroese translate the drafts into Faroese for me? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 14:00, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

If you can't write in Faroese, then why do you wan to contribute to that dictionary ? SinisterLefty (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

JSH-alive -- I don't want to gang up on you, but if you're not capable of writing basic present-tense active-voice single-clause affirmative sentences in a language, then you're simply not capable of contributing usefully to that language's Wikipedia (though you might be able to perform some useful technical maintenance tasks, such as replacing a raster version of an image with its vector SVG, etc.). My ability to write Arabic sentences is pretty rudimentary, but I was capable of contributing to Arabic Wikipedia during a period over ten years ago when it lacked any articles on many basic subjects such as "Flag of Syria" -- writing minimal stubs appropriately illustrated with flag images was within my capabilities. However, I withdrew from Arabic Wikipedia long ago, and some of the mini-stubs I started there are now lengthy articles, beyond my ability to usefully edit... AnonMoos (talk) 19:48, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm willing to correct "John Hopkins University" to "Johns Hopkins University" on any of the Wikipedias. It is rare for an article to transliterate the University name into the local alphabet (though something like Universidad John Hopkins is reasonable). If there is a cite with "publisher=John Hopkins University", even if the article itself is something I don't understand at all, I'll change it.Naraht (talk) 21:28, 24 June 2019 (UTC)