User talk:Alias Tom

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June 2014
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Bahnhof von Niederkerschen – Sassenheim to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It currently has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. hbent (talk) 07:14, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Good morning hbent, I am a new member of Wikipedia and I did some mistakes. The page Bahnhof von Niederkerschen – Sassenheim is supposed to be illustrated in the German Wikipedia. How can I transfer the page? --Alias Tom (talk) 07:37, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi: as you know, the German article was redundant to Bascharage-Sanem railway station, which you have also been editing. I suspect you intended to upload it on the German Wikipedia, where there is no article on this station. Please do so here! Yngvadottir (talk) 13:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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Your edits
Hi again Alias Tom; I commented above. I see you have now uploaded the German version of the station article on German Wikipedia; good. I'm sorry to see they are discussing whether it should be deleted; you may want to participate at the deletion discussion.

I am noticing some problems with your English. For example, the passage in Hautcharage under the heading "Culture" made no sense at all to me until I looked at the French Wikipedia article, which revealed that it was a bad translation. Usually translations like that are produced by computerised translators such as Google Translate. Please do not use these. The results just confuse speakers of the target language.

Also, I have been wondering why you insert in articles? Of course the article text is written in English (in many cases, however, not American English). This is just clutter; are you using some programme that inserts it without your being aware? However, it does not affect the reader's experience (I coded it here to be visible); signing your contributions to articles does, so please be very careful not to put ~ in articles, only on talk pages.

If there is anything we can help you with, remember you can also ask at our own user talk pages - or copy this here: - with a question after it. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:14, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Good morning (talk,

I do agree with my english (and you don't want to know how it looked like back in 2010...) This is also a reason why I'm writing here for approving in this domain.

I decided to delete the " Culture " part. If there are any mistakes left, feel free to correct it or contact me.

Have a nice day,

--Alias Tom (talk) 06:35, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, was that première performance true? Is there a news article documenting it that could be used as a reference? If so, why delete it?


 * I'm not sure what you mean about writing for approval. Once you put something in an article, it's "live"; everyone can see it. Yngvadottir (talk) 14:42, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

The problem is the translation from luxembourgish into english. It was of course a true performance however the article was written with many luxembourgish citations which can't be translated into clean english. I will discuss it with my superior also as I'm doing this for my internship. Sorry to confuse you .. --Alias Tom (talk) 07:15, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I saw you had mentioned something like that at the deletion discussion for the German article. As far as the English Wikipedia is concerned - foreign-language references are perfectly ok. Don't replace them with translations, although it is helpful if you add a translation of an article title and any quotations. One of the problems the German Wikipedia people are raising is that the station article does not have any indication of notability: references would help with that. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:55, 20 June 2014 (UTC)