User talk:RankkaApina

Help me!
Please help me with making sure I don't have a conflict of interest I work on SOFIA as an instrument and telescope operator. There's a good article on this in English, but I wanted to fully update the Finnish page (my native language) and create one for Basque (I'm studying Basque and the idea is that my teacher will correct the article before publication, so that the page doesn't suffer from my language skills). I know the observatory well and I used to work as a researcher in academia, so I do know what impartiality and citing your sources means. I just want to check that it's not considered bad form (I do think I'm in an exceptional position to write these articles because of my knowledge of the topic, similarly like a planetary researcher writing about Mars). And I also think this would be a great way to improve the Wikipedia in the less common languages (+ it would help my language learning, but of course I would have a native speaker check the language before posting anything unless I'm fluent like in English). RankkaApina (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , you'll first need to check the COI policy on the Basque and Finnish Wikipedias because they may consider you to have one. To answer your question, it's certainly not a bad idea. Translating articles is a great way to improve Wikipedia's coverage of certain topics, but be sure to follow the guidelines at WP:Translate us, as well as the guidelines on the Finnish Wikipedia for translating fi:Ohje:Artikkelien kääntäminen. I couldn't find a page on the Basque Wikipedia about translating. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 10:45, 10 February 2021 (UTC)