Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English

This page is a place to list foreign language articles on the English Wikipedia, to see if they can be translated before they are listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. If someone speaks the language the article is written in and can state that it is not worth translating, the item should be moved to VfD.

If the article is a mere copy of (all or part of) an article in a foreign-language Wikipedia, it can just get added to Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion: we want to discourage people who cut articles from one Wikipedia and paste to another without translating. If the intent is to ask for a translation, the correct place to do that is Wikipedia:Translation into English.

If an article has been listed here for two weeks and is still untranslated, it should be moved to VfD. When moving items to VfD, the boilerplate text on the article should be changed from {{notenglish}} to {{subst:vfd}}.

When listing a page here, you might want to find the Wikipedia:Embassy or Ambassador member of the Wikipedia that relates to the language the article is in and invite them to move the page to their own Wikipedia. If you don't even know what language the article is in you could use Language recognition chart and if that fails some language recognition web site, such as xrce, to find out. Please leave a note on this page if you do this to prevent duplication of messages. If you have come here from another Wikipedia, please note on this page what you think should be done with the article.

If you can tell what language an article is written in, that might help.

Boilerplate text

For a page that needs translation in its entirety (so it would be appropriate to delete if not fixed):

1. Use the notice {{notenglish}} which will show up as:

2. Add a mention on this page.

If there is just a section that needs translation, that notice is inappropriate, so it's a little trickier:

Use Category:Pages needing translation.
Add an appropriate note at the top of the page in question, e.g.:
''Section [[#name-of-section|name-of-section]] contains text that needs translation into English.''
Add a mention on this page.

Pages for consideration

November 29

June Haver

Polish, I think. Might be a text dump. Was marked as speedy originally. --jpgordon{gab} 17:46, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

- It is Polish. Bart133 23:41, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Pastorita Huaracina

I used AltaVista to translate this, but it sounds like part-Peruvian band, part-political diatribe. Perhaps it's also a text dump? -- DavidA 18:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Not immediately sure what to make of this. We can probably extract a short NPOV article from this, assuming we can take it at face value. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:38, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

December 3

Mel Lisboa

Portuguese, the first paragraph can be found on Google, but apparently not the rest of it. Goplat 02:44, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Someone mooning over a Brazilian TV actor. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:52, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
Someone starstruck by some actress. Largely moony daydreaming about her appearance. Delete it. Anthony Appleyard 22:54, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 6

Takovo

Some Slavic language. I'm not sure which. Sietse 09:40, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Probably Serbian, looks like it merits translation. Geo-stub. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:17, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

December 7

Formale Organisation

German. It's also on VFD now. Sietse 15:32, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I translated it. Anthony Appleyard 07:55, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- This looks like machine translation. Since it's on VfD, I'm going to leave it, but normally I would just revert this. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:05, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
- I came back later & tidied the result. (I had gone out to buy a newspaper before the paper shop sold out.) Anthony Appleyard 19:06, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  - OK. Sorry I presumed; when you are doing that, it's probably best to comment your edit to the effect of "Babelfish translation, will follow up". You wouldn't believe how many people think that a Babelfish translation on its own is a contribution. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:03, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

December 10

Dyr

A one-sentence Danish or Norwegian text. Dyr means animal in those languages. I guess it's probably either speedy deletion (nonsense) or VFD (redundant) material. Sietse 21:14, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jarawa

A paragraph in French describing a TV documentary about an isolated tribe. Kappa 21:22, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've moved this addition to Talk:Jarawa and started translation there. It doesn't look terribly useful, but if someone can use it for the article, please do. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:54, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Mersin Province

A one-sentence text in a foreign language, probably Turkish. The list of Provinces of Turkey says that Mersin is the capital of the Turkish İçel province. Sietse 21:25, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mentevale

Looks like Italian. A Google translation suggests that its a dictdef and/or nonsense; could someone confirm? [[User:David Johnson|David Johnson [T|C]]] 16:36, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Looks like its about an Italian-language neologism; I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but the second half looks comic. Probably Italian Wiktionary, at best. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:02, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

December 11

Motxo

Might be Spanish. Can't find similar page on Spanish wikipedia. Gsd97jks 18:24, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Appears to be the same as Kalimotxo. Kappa 18:50, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Yes. Slightly more detail. Translate, merge, redirect. BTW, in Castilian-speaking areas of Spain, I think it is most commonly spelled "calimocho" but we'll need someone from Spain with different taste in drinks than mine to answer that. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:05, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Sikorsky Piasecki X-49

Spanish, I think. Sietse 20:30, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, about a Sikorsky aircraft. Looks like an OK stub if translated & wikified. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:06, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

December 12

"Lei das Oitavas de Newlands"

A Portuguese text about John Alexander Reina Newlands' theory of octaves. Maybe it contains some content that can be merged into the English article. (this entry was added by Woggly and changed by Sietse)

Los Patios

Spanish, an article about a village/town in Argentina. Sietse 13:59, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gemeses

Portuguese, seems to be about a village or municipality. Sietse 14:05, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, in Portugal. Not NPOV; I'd guess at least the first part of this is taken from somewhere (it begins with a welcome from the mayor), but can't find it via Google. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:57, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

December 13

Rossio ao Sul do Tejo

Portuguese, on some village? AtonX 23:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 14

Translated pages that could still use some cleanup

Pages listed here are "mostly done" but could still use some attention from someone who approaches dual-native.

Ryukyuan songs

Futami Jouwa -Ryukyuan folk song, originally noted 22 Apr 2004, could really use a running translation of the lyrics. -- Jmabel 05:19, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
- Subete no Hito no Kokoro ni Hana wo is much the same, but given that the writer seems to be still alive, I wonder whether there is a copyright issue? Tinsagu nu Hana does have a translation, but looks more suitable for Wikisource. --Henrygb 00:35, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Refer to the Japanese version above(Subete no HIto...) . Ryukyu is not standard Japanese .--Jondel 07:12, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  - I'm posting translation of Subete no Hito no Kokoroni Hana wo.--Jondel 07:26, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  - Could someone who knows Japanese please try to sort out whether we have any copyright issues here, handle those as such, and leave a note here indicating the current status in terms of what work remains to do on these? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:33, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
    - Subete no ... was written by Shoukichi Kina; sorry, copyvio. --Aphaea 19:39, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Futami Jouwa says that the song is in the Okinawan language. That is a sort of Japanese, but a very non-standard dialect. Is there any USA GI here who has served on Okinawa and picked up the native language? Anthony Appleyard 22:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Or any Okinawan, perhaps? (BTW, the language is also known as Uchinanguchi. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 22:05, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC) P.S. to Anthony: qaleghqa'mo' jIQuch!

Surudi milli

Surudi milli, the national anthem of Tajikistan, needs translation (which should be either following or side-by-side with the Tajik lyrics).

I tried contacting the Tajik Embassy to the United States, but got no reply. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:10, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've linked the article to a translation I found on the web. I also removed the article from this Pages needing Translation category. I didn't paste the translation into the article itself because I'm unsure of the copyright issues involved... if someone's more knowledgable about copyright than me, feel free to address the issue. Andyabides 04:49, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Nope, that's link goes to a page that translates the national anthem of Kazakhstan, and that site's page on Tajikstan does not include a translation of the national anthem. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:41, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Terra_lliure

All sections need attention - there is lack of natural prose. Original article is in Catalan at http://usuarios.lycos.es/uniocatalana/terralliure.html. Could be copy-vio.

Melihate Ajeti

Now a decent slightly-more-than-stub. Some material that was left in Albanian has been moved to the talk page, translation and inclusion would be welcome. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:22, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Dirichlet and Neumann problems and eigenvalues

Looks like Russian. —No-One Jones ^(m) 04:27, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Judging by the formulas, it doesn't contain more than the basic definitions. Gadykozma 22:59, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have machine-translated the article and tried to make some sense into it (machine : own values should be eigenvalues). However, a good mathematician has to do the final touch, because I haven't the slighest clue what this is all about (something about spectrums ?) JoJan 20:29, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Spectrum just means a specific range of possible values. It's about transforming square matrices to discover what multiple (eigenvalues) of the identity they can be changed into, with boundary conditions (von Neumann (static conditions - differentials (calculus) set to zero at a certain moment) and Diriclet (fixed value at a certain moment)). Dirichlet and von Neumann are just basic descriptive terms used all over the place. CheeseDreams 22:54, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio? It's probably from here: [1] although I can't find the exact page. Didn't someone do this before with a similar text? Saintswithin 19:56, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cofradia

Spanish, about a town in Honduras. I've translated over 90% of it, what remains looks like pretty tough going. Help welcomed. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:34, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)