User talk:Sweater

Welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia[change source]

Hi, Sweater! Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes!

If you need help, check out the Help section of Wikipedia, or leave a message on my talk page.

Whenever leaving messages on talk pages, please remember to sign your name by typing four 'tildes' (like this: ~~~~); doing this makes your name and the date show up. Also, it helps if you write something in the box that says 'edit summary' whenever you change an article.

Below are some useful links to make your time here simpler.

If you make a short article please mark it with {{stub}}, our guideline is here.

Happy editing! B G^7even 17:21, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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B G^7even 17:21, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images[change source]

When you add images, add a subtitle to them by adding |caption]] (replacing caption with a subtitle that tells us what it shows us) at the end of the image link, but before the brackets. If you keep doing this, they'll be removed beacuse they'll appear to be random images and they don't explain what they show. - Æåm Fætsøn ^{/ˈaɪæm ˈfætsən/} 08:27, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, remember that captions need to be in English. Thanks! Kansan (talk) 22:46, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

General Motors[change source]

Hey there. I reverted your edits to General Motors as the subtitles were not in English. Please remember to translate these into Simple English. I see you've been told this before, please make sure they are in English. Thanks!--Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 00:42, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Medical Translation[change source]

Medical Translation Project

Invitation to the Medical Translation Project – a joint Wikimedia project started by the English language WikiProject Medicine!

Thank you for being one of the top Medical editors! I want to use this opportunity to introduce you to our most ambitious project.

We want to use Wikipedia to spread knowledge where it will be used. Studies have shown that Wikipedia is the most common resource of medical knowledge, and used by more people than any other source! We want high quality articles, available to everyone, regardless of language ability. It isn't right that you would need to know a major language to get hold of quality content!

That is why in the recent Ebola crisis (which is still ongoing) we translated information into over 70 languages, many of them small African languages. This was important, as Wikipedia was also shown to be the biggest resource used in Africa for information on Ebola! We see tremendous potential, but also great risks as our information needs to be accurate and well-researched. We only translate articles that have been reviewed by medical doctors and experts, so that what we translate is correct. Many of our translators are professionals, but many are also volunteers, and we need more of you guys – both to translate, but also to import finished translations, and fix grammatical or other style issues that are introduced by the translation process.

Our articles are not only translated into small languages, but also to larger ones, but as of 2015 this requires users to apply for an article to be translated, which can be done here (full articles, short articles) with an easy to manage google document.

So regardless of your background head over to our main page for more information, or to our talk page and ask us questions. Feel free to respond in any language, we will do our best to find some way to communicate. No task is too small, and we need everyone to help out!

I hope you will forgive me for sending this message in English – we also need translators for messages like this, and above all local language community managers, which act as a link between us and you. Also I can not reply on your talk page, so please go to our talk page!

Thank you for helping medical information on Wikipedia grow! -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 15:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Google Translation of this message