Talk:Les Frères Jacques

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I'd be happy to take this on, but I'd be grateful if somebody/ies would look at the French version and see if they agree that it's far too long and detailed to need to be translated wholesale. The discography seems to me to be more or less completely unneeded in English – anyone interested can find a modern CD at Amazon and lots of records on Spotify. What does anyone else think? I won't be able to start for about a week.  MKHendry (talk) 22:42, 1 October 2021 (UTC) I have now started work on this and the more I look at it, the more it seems that what English Wikipedia needs is an abstract based on the French version, 40 or so years after the group stopped singing. Please say if you disagree and want a genuine translation. MKHendry (talk) 14:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)  I have more or less finished my translation/adaptation of the French Wikipedia page on the singing group, Les Frères Jacques, into English. It is on a subpage of mine if anyone wants a look. I concluded that it was worth translating the whole text of the page, incorporating some of the explanatory text from the French footnotes. I need some help. The French version lacks citations and en.Wikipedia has put a note on my version saying so. I’m not sure “translation” includes doing fresh research about the subject but I have done a little: trying to see the article referred to in the scant French citations. No good so far. The article is in a magazine called Je Chante. It seems not to be available on line and I couldn’t find any help at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. I actually suspect that the whole French Wiki article is culled from the article. Does anyone know how I could access the article? Or for that matter, anything else that could be used to top up the French citations? I have mentioned in my version that there is a very full discography in the French version but I don’t think it is worth copying it wholesale into the English one. MKHendry (talk) 17:01, 9 November 2021 (UTC)