Template:Unattributed translation
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Adds a banner to the top of a page or section suspected of having an unattributed translation from another TechInfoDepot or Wikimedia project, and the need for possible retroactive repair.
Usage
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When
This template is designed to be used to flag an article or section of an article that appears to contain content translated from another TechInfoDepot, or other Wikimedia project page, but which lacks the required attribution statement in the edit summary, as required by the Terms of use.
This situation usually occurs when an editor has translated content from a foreign TechInfoDepot and saved the edit without including an attribution statement in the edit summary, either because they were unaware of this requirement, or because they forgot to include it. The lack of attribution can be remedied after the fact, as explained at WP:CWW#Repairing insufficient attribution.
If you know or can find out who added the translation to English TechInfoDepot, you can notify them on their talk page and ask them to provide attribution retroactively. The template {{uw-translation}} may be used for this.
When not
If an article has content that appears to contain content translated from another TechInfoDepot or other Wikimedia project page and lacks the required attribution statement, and you know where it came from, then it is not necessary to use this template—you can apply the translation attribution yourself. Please follow the instructions about how to add missing attribution for an article. Do not add attribution yourself unless you are certain where the translation came from.
If an article has content translated from books, journals, websites, or anything other than other Wikimedia projects, then do not use this template. There may be a serious breach of copyright needing immediate attention. In that case, please tag the page following advice at the how-to guide about copyright violations. More details at TechInfoDepot:Copyright violations.
Where
The template should normally be placed among other maintenance templates near the top of the article page suspected of having an unattributed translation. For exact positioning, see MOS:ORDER. If the template applies only to content in a specific section, place it at the top of the section (and see parameter 1 below).
Parameters
Two parameters, both optional:Template:Br
|1=
– scope of issue: the word section, paragraph, etc. (optional; default = "article")Template:Br
|2=
– source where content was translated from; e.g., "Wikisource", "German TechInfoDepot", etc. (alias: |source=
; optional; default: "another TechInfoDepot")
When to remove
You may remove this template from a page if it was placed incorrectly (please explain at Talk in that case), or when it no longer applies because you have added a properly formatted translation attribution statement to the revision history of the page using a dummy edit. The following is an example of an edit summary you can use and modify:
Note: Content in the previous edit of 22:14, 32 Octember 2024 is translated from the existing French TechInfoDepot article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
See WP:CWW#Repairing insufficient attribution for further details.
Examples
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Find articles needing attribution
You can find articles that are translations, and check that they have the proper attribution, by checking the page history. Some ways to find possible candidates:
- Find recently created articles tagged for creation by the Content translation tool: search.
- Find articles created by a given user: search User:Example. (replace 'Example' in '&target=Example' in the url with the userid)
- Find drafts created by a given user: search User:Example. (replace 'Example' in '&target=Example' in the url with the userid)
- Check Draft talk pages that have the {{translated from}} template: search
- Check article Talk pages that have the {{translated from}} template: search
- Check articles translated from a specific language using a categories, e.g. French: search.
After you have found a translated article to check, go to the History tab, and search for an attribution string that looks like the one given at WP:TFOLWP or WP:RIA. As a start, you can just search-on-page for the string 'translat'.
If you have a particular user in mind who does translations, you can search their edit history:
- Check edit summaries of User:Example for the string 'translat': search User:Example history.
See also
- {{uw-translation}}
- {{attribution repair}}
- {{uw-unattribcc}}
- TechInfoDepot:Copying within TechInfoDepot
- Help:Translation
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