User talk:HEPHENRY

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 * Please feel free to delete this message from your user-talk page after viewing... Ashcraft - (talk) 17:30, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

French
Hello, HEPHENRY, and welcome.

I saw your corrections to an article on the French site--actually a translation that I made. Where did you learn French? I've been looking for translators ever since I decided to establish an edition in that language.

Please reply on my own Talk page. (We are not accustomed to watching each other's Talk pages, but we always watch our own.)--TemlakosTalk 12:55, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

French 2
Thank you for your reply. Very good! Or as I believe one says it in your language, Tres bien!

I will never ask you to translate anything from French into English. But--if you ever decide to write something original in French, please leave it on the French site, and let me know where it is. Then I can translate it into English.

The first thing I'd like to know is this: Is "Dessein intelligent" the proper phrase for "intelligent design"? If it is not, then I hereby permit you to "move" the page to the proper title. You should have that right anyway. (If ever there's anything you haven't the right to do, that needs doing, let me know--and if you and I decide that we would be better off if you could do these things yourself, then I'll grant you such rights as you require. I have that authority on the French site.)

Second: feel free to correct any error of translation that I have made.

Third: The page fr:Spécial:Pages demandées lists page titles that need writing. Almost every one of these has an English equivalent that requires translation into French. I'd be most grateful if you would translate those articles, in the order of their appearance on that page.

Now there's just one thing: If you have any trouble with templates (Modèles), let me know immediately, and I'll work up the required templates in French. Understand this: I don't know your experience with Wiki editing, so I don't know how much you know about templates. We use a lot of templates here, because they save a lot of time.

Also: if, as you translate an article, you find that certain image files don't show on the French site, that's probably because they were loaded on the English site and not on our Media Pool (Médiathèque). Let me know immediately if you have that kind of problem. I'll move any pictures to the pool that need moving. (Actually, any editor can place an image onto the pool, but only a sysop can delete it from its original position.)

I might write some more articles of my own. When I do, I'll let you know about them. I'd ask you to translate some of the articles on the Kings of Israel and Judah, but first I need to create several templates that are designed to reproduce a name in an ancient language--like Modèle:Nom hébreu (Template:Hebrew Name), Modèle:Nom grec (for Template:Greek Name), etc.

One last thing: I'll do what I can to teach you how to use semantic annotation. Or if that's too much "dommage", I'll create templates to handle the annotation for you.

In Him,

--TemlakosTalk 20:46, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Template:Cquote
Please be advised that the expression "ccitation" that appears inside a double curly brace ( {{ ) is a legitimate template name.

Template:Cquote and its French counterpart, fr:Modèle:Ccitation, are designed to place quoted text between custom-sized quotation marks (guillemets). The ordinary templates Template:Quote and fr:Modèle:Citation place quoted text inside blue-gray boxes. We prefer the custom quote marks.--Temlakos{{sup|Talk}} 18:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Menu article links
I saw what happened when you tried to change the article menu. When you changed the words, the text turned red.

The way MediaWiki works is that any text found within square brakets must be the title of a recognized page, or else it shows up as a page waiting to be created.

I understand what happened. When I translated "young earth" into French, I mistakenly assumed that the adjective jeune went before the noun. Clearly it follows the noun. Now you want to put the adjective after the noun, where it belongs. But when you do that, the program can't find the article.

The thing to do is to move the article to a new title. The only way to change a misspelled or ungrammatical article title to the correct one is to move it. Movement does two things:


 * 1) It creates a new page and transfers all the contents of the old page to the new.
 * 2) At the location of the old page, it leaves a redirect so that anyone who has linked to the old title can still find the article.

Now you should have the privilege of moving articles. If you see a tab labeled "move" or "meuve" or however it translates, then you have that privilege.

If you do not--then let me know, and I will move the article for you, and then try to make sure that you have that privilege in future.--TemlakosTalk 14:41, 29 December 2009 (UTC)