User talk:John Quincy Adding Machine/Oct2008

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Re: Russian translation
Не понимаете английского — нажмите сюда. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Catalan translation
''Hola! Si voleu deixar-me un missatge, probablement el llegiré abans si me'l deixeu a la meva pàgina de discussió de la Viquipèdia en anglès.'' Cheers!--Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 07:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Spanish translation
Hi there. "Do not speak English? Click here." would be "No hablas Inglés? Haz clic aquí." A more formal way would be "No habla Inglés? Haga clic aquí." So, it depends whether you want a formal or informal way of saying it. Also "click" has several translations depending on the region, "click" itself, "picar", "pinchar", "clic", etc, so some may ask you to change it. I believe "clic" is the most neutral version (which is used by the Spanish Wikipedia). Cheers! -- ReyBrujo (talk) 13:20, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed, there is an opening sign, ¿. Nowadays you don't use it most of the times but yes, you should add it at the beginning of the questions: ¿No hablas inglés? Haz clic aquí. and ¿No habla inglés? Haga clic aquí. We don't use uppercase when referring to languages (contrary to English which uses French, Spanish, etc), so you can do it with lowercase. Cheers! -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Arabic translation
Hi. That would be "لا تتحدث الإنجليزية؟ اضغط هنا." Note that Arabic is written from right to left (RTL language). Hope I have been helpful. See you. --Meno25 (talk) 00:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Improvement
Thanks for the recommendation, Hexagon. In actual fact, I'd never seen WikiChecker before, and am blown away by it – what a tool! I was coincidentally planning a minor overhaul to the cactions tool, as I haven't given it any attention since I returned in January from my extended wikibreak. I will now most definitely be including the WikiChecker article and user analysis links. I'll keep you posted! haz (talk) 17:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Chinese translation
Simplified Chinese: 不会说英语？请点击这里.

Traditional Chinese: 不會說英語？請點擊這裡.

I recommend using both versions, but using either one should be OK.

-- Felix Wan (talk) 15:13, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Translation, as requested
Hey buddy,

Here is the translation you requested (Don't speak English? Click here):

"Vous ne parlez pas l'anglais? Cliquez ici"

You'd need to make the link on 'here' work on the word 'ici'.

I hope that helps!

All the best. ghostmoon EVP hauntings 18:46, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Cactions tool
Hexagon1, just to inform you, I've released the upgrade to the cactions tool, which you should be able to see already (Ctrl-F5 if not). The tool should still work just as before; see User:Haza-w/Caction tool for the documentation. If you find any bugs or have any queries or feature requests, please get in touch. Thanks, and enjoy! haz (talk) 20:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello...
...I am very bored. Please talk to me on my talk page. i-am-entertainU (talk) 02:53, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry
I am very sorry for my actions. Please don't block me. I will never ever do it again. Thank You and Happy editing! i-am-entertainU (talk) 03:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Yikes
I've never seen somebody bite a good faith newbie as hard as you did to this poor kid. Firstly, a friendly note saying something like "Hey, don't forget we're here to write an encyclopedia, not to chat and make friends. Blah blah, point to IRC, etc." would have been perfectly fine. Secondly, "You may not remove vandal-warnings from your talk page" is astonishingly wrong-headed. Any user may remove anything they want from their user talk pages (except current block notices), in fact the removal of warnings is proof positive that the user has indeed read the warnings. And making the inference that the user is now a vandal for wanting to talk to people is not the way to go about making people feel welcome. I'm sorry if this seems unduly harsh, but I feel this "if you don't act straight we'll block you" attitude is very harmful to Wikipedia. Remember, don't bite the newbies, assume good faith, and ignore the rules. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA
Hi Hexagon1! Thank you very much for your support in my RfA, which passed yesterday. I hope not to let you and the others down, and use the tools for the benefit of the project. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 22:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)