User talk:Bapak Alex

Translations
Abrupt comments. Thank you for great work (I only translate high-quality articles, if this means anything). The fact of translation is marked by a standard template on the talk pages of those articles. I am still thinking about translating more of your work (frankly, obscurity of the topics stopped me in some cases). S uvazheniem. Materialscientist (talk) 23:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for you reply – so prompt and friendly. I do admire the amount and the quality of your job and I am happy you make the articles on my beloved Indonesia available globally. Frankly I was sure you are an expert on the country – is it really possible to make those great translations without knowing the subject thoroughly?!:)
 * I have no knowledge of this topic (well, learned some while translating :-) and rely on general education, common sense and the provided sources. Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn’t notice the templates on the talk pages of the English articles. Mind that in some cases there are confusions – wrong Russian articles are marked as sources. I can let you know all the cases tomorrow if you have no time to check them.
 * There were indeed some copy/paste errors by another editor. I hope they are all fixed now. Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to help you in the Indonesian topics you find obscure. Can I also apply to your knowledge and experience – they seem truly unique.
 * Regards, Bapak Alex (talk) 23:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, quality is more important to me than obscurity. If you happen to write another good geography related article, I will gladly translate it :) Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

As above
Hi, thank you for getting in touch. I actually noticed your work when User:Merbabu praised it here. I was a bit confused to see the pages growing so much, so quickly, and I realised it could not be original content, so I noticed the * next to the Russian link in the sidebar, and figured out that they were translations from your work on the Russian wiki.

I'm not really an expert on the licensing of Wikipedia, but I had a look around and found out that correct procedure is to tag the origin on the talk page, so I did that, although I think I made some mistakes copying and pasting the corresponding pages, as the Cyrillic alphabet is all Greek to me (so to speak).

Anyway, the 'translated' template is rather opaque, so I have added a note on the talk page of each article pointing to your user page. Based on the last x years of wikipedia, I would not expect rapid changes to any of the pages....

By all means btw, stick around. You can watch this: for new Indonesia-related pages. Here is a list of 'broken' Indonesian-related pages:. If you fix them all, the prize is $1 million ;).

There is a general problem here because it is difficult to find good sources for Indonesian articles. For example, can you find a source for the claim here "the great majority of Indonesians now dwell in generic modern buildings rather than traditional rumah adat." It is true of course, but the concern here (at least at en.wikipedia) is not for truth, but for verifiability. There are a few Indonesian-language editors who come and edit, and most of the stuff is unsourced and often not really intelligible English too, but then we have User:Merbabu and User:SatuSuro (both I believe Australian) to beat them up....Sumbuddi (talk) 23:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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