Talk:Willem Schippers

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Oct 23, 2021: Translated from the NL WIkipedia page (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Schippers)

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1. Twang (talk) 22:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

I entered the translation using a tool) today I'd never used before. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&campaign=specialcx#suggestions) It suggested that I publish the translation so I did.

The editor said I could press a 'SWITCH' button to do text editing ... I saw no SWITCH button. The tool said it was 'saving', but gave me no idea where the editing would wind up, so I published. (I hate losing work.) I have to say, as a long-time editor, the tool takes WAY too much for granted ... for a 'traditional' editor like myself at least.

Of course the article needs links and citations. It needs more formatting (e.g. Infobox and bibliography columns). It's a start. I'll do what I can as I can.

2. Twang (talk) 13:49, 28 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Adding a couple of thoughts: One of the problems of translating an foreign-language article into English, it turns out, is that it can be difficult to find citeable reference sources in the English language. That is the def the case we have with Schippers. After a couple of hours on several different search sites I found ZERO NIL NO BUPKIS citeable references in English on our Mr. Schippers ... only a very few general comments from readers.

Let this be a lesson: unless you're prepared to translate a bunch of references too -- and there aren't many readily apparent exemplars in the Wiki canon on how to format them -- or how much good they'll do the English-only reader -- it gets complicated fast. I guess it'd help to make sure that the article you chose to translate has good refs. In this case, I was doing the translation as an experiment, so not a biggie. I hope a Dutch-speaking Samaritan will come along.

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