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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
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Calculus I
Could you please edit: My French is at about fr-1. I used Google Translate and someone at French Wikipedia said that the translation was poor. Please help. Please tell others about the English page, such as high school and college students and faculty. Thanks in advance.--2602:304:CDC1:90:64C5:4976:D62C:FF33 (talk) 11:58, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Calcul_infinit%C3%A9simal

Re: Carnival Period
Thank you for the correction about Carnival period. Since you seem knowledgeable about this topic, feel free to edit this article that I created: List of movable Western Christian observances. Asarelah (talk) 13:06, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I will certainly take a look at it. Happy Plough Monday! -- Picapica (talk) 18:03, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Tea (Meal)
Thank you for helping with the French source. However, I have two concerns that I thought I would discuss before making any additional changes. First, in the French quote, "très-fort" is hyphenated, as expected in 1804. I'm not sure what the rules are for handling that in a quotation, so I didn't change it back, but perhaps it should be. Second, the translation "broad slices of buttered bread" doesn't strike me as idiomatic English. Maybe "generous slices" would be better than either of the proposed translations. MonteGargano (talk) 05:01, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Merci pour les observations, MG. Those were both points I have to admit I wasn't 100% sure about myself. Regarding très-fort, it is, as you say, correct for the period (having just done a little research, I see that the Académie didn't rule against très- until 1877), so I've no objection to its being changed back. I just thought it looked a little odd to the modern eye (and might be taken for a typo), but on reflection, I concede that the case against updating spellings in a direct quotation is almost certainly the stronger one. As for "generous slices", I think that that's an excellent suggestion; it was simply that I was unhappy about English large as a translation of French large. I will go ahead and make those adjustments now. -- Picapica (talk) 06:27, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Arlington Independent Media for deletion
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