User talk:Société de Lecture

January 2022
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Questions
Hello @justlettersandnumbers, Thank you for your message. I am going to create a new Wikipedia profile. It will be easier. Would you be kind enough to answer two technical questions? : -When should I create the link that connects the French article and the English translation? Before doing the translation or before publishing the English version? -When I correct the sources putting the dates from the French way to the English way for the English version, I can't save the changes. What should I do to fix the problem? Thank you very much in advance for your help. Have a nice evening.--Société de Lecture (talk) 13:15, 23 January 2022 (UTC) 194.230.146.22 (talk) 21:13, 22 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Courtesy ping to
 * I think I can answer your questions. Regarding the dates in your citations, some of your date parameter values still appear to use French (e.g. 20 mai 2018), which the English template might not recognize as valid.
 * Looks like your drafts still have some code from the original article on French Wikipedia that will not work here. For example, I found an article template, but that does not work the same way or have the same purpose as its namesake on French Wikipedia, fr:Modèle:Article.
 * I have already included the translated page template to indicate that this was translated. See User talk:Société de Lecture/The Société de Lecture and User talk:Société de Lecture/The Société de Lecture of Geneva.
 * I don't think you need two copies of the same article. You should decide to keep just one and then request deletion of the other.
 * Finally, if you are affiliated with this organization, then you must review Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, and also the mandatory paid editing disclosure policy if it applies. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:22, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks @Drm310 for your time and explainations. I am working for the Société de Lecture. I declared it on the French Wikipedia version. I would like to do the same for the English version : where should I declare it ? For the dates, if I turn ‘20 mai 2018’ into ‘May 20th, 2018’, the correction is not saved in my draft. Probably a question of code. I try to modify things in my first draft but it is said that ‘an error occurred while saving the page’. If my drafts still have French code, don’t you think it would be better to start again from the beginning with a new name ? To whom should I request deletion ? Could I do it by myself ? Sorry with all those questions but I am not familiar with code in the english version. I try to do my best but I have the feeling of being lost, unfortunately.


 * The first issue you must deal with before any others is your account name. You cannot have an account name that represents an organization - it violates English Wikipedia's username policy. You won't be allowed to continue using this name - you will have to select a new name that represents you as an individual, using the unblock code above.
 * Assuming that your account is renamed and that you are unblocked, then you must disclose your employment on your userpage (currently User:Société de Lecture, which would change to whatever new name you choose). The paid template is an easy way to disclose the details of your employment and satisfy the terms of the paid editing disclosure policy.
 * When the first two items have been completed, then you can try correcting the draft. I don't know whether it is worth the effort to start a new draft from the beginning... the technical errors in your existing draft can probably be fixed. I can help when I have time, or you can ask for assistance at the Help desk or Teahouse.
 * --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:11, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you @Drm310 for your time and explanations! I am going to change my name. Have a good afternoonSociété de Lecture (talk) 13:50, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Justlettersandnumbers and @Drm310. I need your valuable expertise again. I registered under a new identity (Library69) to redo my whole page in English (Société de Lecture of Geneva) in a sandbox to make sure I wouldn't make any mistakes. Unfortunately, I have realised once I had finished the whole text and introduced the 60 references that I had totally forgotten to introduce the lines to underline the titles and separate the paragraphs. Now that I have published the page so that volunteers can validate my work, I undersand that it is a big mistake. Unfortunately, I can't change it by doing "edit" and trying to add the separating lines at this stage. Do you think I should make a new page from scratch again? I'm sorry to bother you with this question which is important for me. In advance, I thank you very much for your answer. Have a good Sunday.

Hello @Justlettersandnumbers and @Drm310. I have found a way to correct my mistake! I transform the titles from "subheading" to "heading" and it worked. I am glad. Now, it is written in that I should wait about three month before turn my text from sandbox into a wikipedia page. If I use the function "move", could I boost the process? Thanks for your advices. Best regards.Société de Lecture (talk) 07:51, 1 February 2022 (UTC)