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Image:William Kresse.jpg original?
Hi Red Alien. Since you are the creator of Image:William Kresse.jpg, do you think you could upload the original image? It is always better to have the source image for any future modifications or uses. Also, having the image in color would be more encyclopedic; why strip out color information from the image? You can overwrite Image:William Kresse.jpg by uploading the original with the same name. Thanks! ~MDD4696 16:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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Help!
Is it "wrong" to contribute to Wikipedia's of other languages by getting the information in English, translating it (on an Internet translator, specifically), and writing it in that article? Red Alien Nothing is Real. 21:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Translating using an internet translator will likely get you garbage. Internet translators work literally word-by-word, which is not how actual translation works. So you should avoid doing this. For example, from the Wikipedia article, this text:


 * Wikipedia is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows any visitor to freely edit its content. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the website. Wikipedia's main servers are in Tampa, Florida, the United States, with additional servers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Seoul, South Korea.


 * Translated into and then back out of Japanese becomes this text:


 * Wikipedia is project of the WEB based free contents multi language encyclopedias. As for that wiki, it is made the web sight which makes that the visitor compiles contents freely possible. First-rate Wikipedia is word wiki and portmanteau of the encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written cooperating due to the volunteer, in order even with with most someone of access to the web sight to change, most articles do. As for the principal server of Wikipedia the tamper where the addition server of Amsterdam has been attached, Florida and the United States, are ネザーランド and Seoul and south Korea.


 * As you can see, not very helpful. So you probably want to refrain from translation other than with languages you actually know. - Che Nuevara  21:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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March 2010
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