User talk:Galatea sherbet

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Hello, Galatea sherbet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! GILO ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY  00:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Ник Джелилай
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Ник Джелилай 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. GILO ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY  00:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Ник Джелилай
Hi. Thanks for your e-mail about this article. If you wish to create a Russian language version of the page Nik Xhelilaj, I would suggest the following:
 * 1) create the article here on the Russian Wikipedia
 * 2) create an interwiki link to the Russian article at the bottom of the Nik Xhelilaj page on the English Wikipedia; add Ник Джелилай to the bottom of the page. This will show as a Russian language option at the bottom of the toolbar on the left, and allows Russian speakers to link directly to that page in the Russian Wikipedia.
 * 3) create an interwiki link to the English Wikipedia article at the bottom of the Russian article; add Nik Xhelilaj there.
 * 4) once finished, you should mark the Russian language article in the English Wikipedia for deletion; add  to the top of that article, so that administrators know that it is a recreation of the English language article.

I hope this makes sense; please leave a message on my talk page if you need any more information. Best of luck. GILO ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY  01:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Ник Джелилай
Please stop recreating a Russian version of Ник Джелилай, when we already have an English version at Nik Xhelilaj. This is the English language Wikipedia, and we do not carry Russian translations of articles. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:29, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * PS: I have turned Ник Джелилай into a redirect now. But your Russian version isn't lost, so if you want to copy it to a Russian language version at the Russian Wikipedia, you can get it from the article history. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:34, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Nik Xhelilaj
I see you are also adding the Russian translation of his name at Nik Xhelilaj. However, he appears to be Albanian, not Russian, and so including a Russian spelling of his name does not appear to be appropriate. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Your email
Hi - I got your email, thanks. I'd prefer to keep the discussion here where others can see it and may wish to contribute.

You say you added the Russian translation to help Russian speakers understand the pronunciation - that's fine on a Russian language version destined for the Russian Wikipedia, but not for the English language version on the English Wikipedia. The English language Wikipedia is intended for English speakers, and we cannot accommodate pronunciation guides for speakers of all the world's other languages - articles here carry English and native language spellings only.

Regarding your inability to create an article on the Russian Wikipedia because you're blocked there, I'm afraid I really can't help you with that. You'll have to take that up with the admins over there. I'd suggest you try appealing your block or try talking to the admin who blocked you, and perhaps ask for suggestions on an appropriate noticeboard (though I don't know anything about the noticeboard structure there). But if you do manage to get unblocked, the text of the article will still be here for you to copy at the appropriate time.

Best regards -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)