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Welcome to Wikipedia, Slassagne! Thank you for your contributions. I am Bluerasberry and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  18:00, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Wasei-eigo
Thanks for adding a book to the "further reading" section of Wasei-eigo. Other options for sharing information from this book include adding a fact from it to the article then citing the book, which you would do in a very similar way except that you add the citation after the fact and surround the citation with "reference" tags like " ".

Beyond this article, notice that this strange term "Wasei-eigo" has Wikipedia entries for multiple languages listed in the Wikidata registry. Even without understanding the languages, you may be interested to see the "Wasei-eigo" terms which exist in Indonesian or Polish, among others. For people with interest in multilingual perspectives Wikipedia can give insight which would be hard to find in any forum which does not welcome speakers of all languages. In some circumstances, it is appropriate to signal good English language sources on Wikipedias of other languages. Just use your own discretion about this, but ultimately, the best ideas from every language are supposed to be shared across the articles.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  23:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your suggestions, Lane. I took your suggestion to add a fact from the book that I thought was important and missing from the article.Slassagne (talk) 08:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your interest in translation. The issue of cross-cultural communication is close to my interests as well. When translation happens, the preferred direction is that people translate from their non-native language into their native language, although it can happen the other way if someone choices. You might notice if you browse Japanese Wikipedia that articles on Japanese culture are most developed, and these might not have English equivalents. There is a trend that multilingual people will read broad topics in English but their culture remains in their native language. It seems like the path from non-English languages into each other is often non-English 1 -> English -> non- English 2.
 * I hardly know anything about the Japanese Wikipedia because they alone in the world of all languages and cultures participating in Wikipedia prefer to avoid making user accounts. Without an account there is no user page, no direct communication, and no participation in the international conferences and communities. Despite this, there is the broad perception that Japanese Wikipedia is well developed and has a thriving community which somehow developed on a different community model than everywhere else.
 * If there is anything I can do to help you share the ideas you want propagated then stay in touch, either on wiki or through the course mailing list. You have done the most complicated part by formatting a citation, and in my opinion, that is the base of editing here.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  18:10, 9 February 2015 (UTC)