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Your 23 October 2023 edit to "Eye color" edit
Greetings and felicitations. I just discovered and wanted to bring to your attention that your 23 October 2023 edit to "Eye color" created an incomplete sentence:
Spain, show that the color distribution of the iris is 16.3% blue-gray, (55.2% green-hazel and 28.5% brown).
This is not a major problem, but would you please be so kind as to fix it, at your convenience? —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- I've changed the last portion of it to "16.3% blue-gray, 55.2% green-hazel, and 28.5% brown." —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:49, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi, Just to learn more because I don't have much experience in Wikipedia in English, could you please tell me what the correct phrase would be in its entirety? Hastengeims (talk) 22:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- I am not certain of what you intended to say, so I cannot. Perhaps if you write it in your native language (Spanish?) I can use Google Translate to get a better idea of what you want to say. —DocWatson42 (talk) 23:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- Osea, cual es el problema poco importante del que me hablas Hastengeims (talk) 13:37, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
- I meant: What do you mean to say in the article? What is this supposed to mean?:
- Osea, cual es el problema poco importante del que me hablas Hastengeims (talk) 13:37, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
- I am not certain of what you intended to say, so I cannot. Perhaps if you write it in your native language (Spanish?) I can use Google Translate to get a better idea of what you want to say. —DocWatson42 (talk) 23:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi, Just to learn more because I don't have much experience in Wikipedia in English, could you please tell me what the correct phrase would be in its entirety? Hastengeims (talk) 22:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Spain, show that the color distribution of the iris is 16.3% blue-gray, (55.2% green-hazel and 28.5% brown).
En irlanda más del 50% tiene ojos azules. En Gran Bretaña el 48% de la población tenía ojos azules en 2014 (30% verde y 22% marrón). España, muestran que la distribución de colores del iris es un 16.3 % azul-gris, y (55.2% verde-avellana y 28.5 % marrón).
- So, using the sentences before the sentence about Spain as clues, I think you mean
In Spain, the iris color distribution among the population is 16.3% blue-gray, 55.2% green-hazel, and 28.5% brown.
- Is that correct or incorrect? If is incorrect, please tell me how it can be improved. —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- That's correct but what I put doesn't mean the same thing? Hastengeims (talk) 06:21, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, it does not. :-( It lacks an "In" ("En" in Spanish) and uses the wrong verb (it is written as if a teacher gave a student a problem to solve, not a declaration of facts). For Wikipedia, it would need to be more like "En España, la distribución del color del iris entre la población es 16,3% gris azulado, 55,2% verde avellana y 28,5% marrón." A direct statement with no ambiguity of grammar, that does not imply anything, or use colloquial language. That is, unless you have someone check the language to make certain it is correct. If you do not have such a person, translate it using Google Translate into English, then that translation back into Spanish, then that translation back into English, and then that translation back into Spanish, and make certain the last translation still makes sense. —DocWatson42 (talk) 06:46, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okidoki, thanks for clarifying Hastengeims (talk) 11:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- You're welcome. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 14:27, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okidoki, thanks for clarifying Hastengeims (talk) 11:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, it does not. :-( It lacks an "In" ("En" in Spanish) and uses the wrong verb (it is written as if a teacher gave a student a problem to solve, not a declaration of facts). For Wikipedia, it would need to be more like "En España, la distribución del color del iris entre la población es 16,3% gris azulado, 55,2% verde avellana y 28,5% marrón." A direct statement with no ambiguity of grammar, that does not imply anything, or use colloquial language. That is, unless you have someone check the language to make certain it is correct. If you do not have such a person, translate it using Google Translate into English, then that translation back into Spanish, then that translation back into English, and then that translation back into Spanish, and make certain the last translation still makes sense. —DocWatson42 (talk) 06:46, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- That's correct but what I put doesn't mean the same thing? Hastengeims (talk) 06:21, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Is that correct or incorrect? If is incorrect, please tell me how it can be improved. —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)