User talk:Lechwal

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Happy editing! -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:02, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Belgian prisons
Please take a look at List of prisons; it has lots of red links for articles that need to be created (see Wikipedia:Red link). It would be great if you could create one of the missing articles. Many of the red links have names that start Gevangenis. Most English-speaking people can guess that Prison de Haren is a prison either named Haren or at Haren, because the English and French word "prison" has the same meaning. But "gevangenis" conveys no meaning in English. I can see that "Forest Prison" might be the common name in English, or "Vorst Prison", but not "Gevangenis van Vorst". If you think that the common name for that prison in English should be "Forest Prison", please could you create an article on it using the name: Forest Prison, Brussels. If you do not, you cannot complain if somebody else creates an article on it calling it Vorst Prison or Vorst Prison, Brussels. I used the name "Vorst Prison" in the article on Haren Prison because most of the sources I read called it Vorst. If there had been an English-language Wikipedia article on it calling it "Forest Prison", I would have used that name. If you do create an article on it, I strong advise using both names, because it is not obvious to English-speakers that the two dissimilar names are for the same place. If you look at the article on the city of Antwerp, you will see that it has both Anvers and Antwerpen in the first line. -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:02, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

The reason the article on Haren Prison had Flemish-language names for various parts of the prison was in case I made an error in translating the Flemish terms into English. As I built up the article I found more sources talking about these parts of the prison, and am now more confident that I got the translations right. Having had the Flemish terms shown for a few weeks was useful in that it gave other editors a chance to check for errors. It did no harm that you removed them today. -- Toddy1 (talk) 10:14, 6 February 2023 (UTC)