Template:Uw-translation
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from one or more pages to another page. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:
NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.
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How to use:
{{subst:Uw-translation}}{{subst:Uw-translation|Article translated from}}references a specific article translated from{{subst:Uw-translation|Article translated from|Additional text}}adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"{{subst:Uw-translation||Additional text}}or{{subst:Uw-translation|2=Additional text}}also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article translated from.
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{{subst:Uw-translation|to=Target article}}
{{subst:Uw-translation|xx:Article translated from|to=Target article}}language_code:article_nameto link to a foreign language WP article){{subst:Uw-translation|xx:Article translated from|to=Target article|Additional text}}
- Please remember to substitute the template using
{{subst:Uw-translation}}rather than{{Uw-translation}}. - To give greater detail to your message, you may add the article translated from and some additional text to the end of the template. If such article translated from or additional text includes a URL or anything which includes an equal sign ("="), it may break the parser's function unless you prefix the article translated from or the text with a named template parameter. Use "
1=" if the article translated from contains an equals sign and use "2=" if the additional text contains an equals sign (such as a URL). - Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
- This template automatically populates the relevant category with the user page. If and when the user account gets blocked, or approximately eight weeks pass with no further action, that categorization is automatically removed.
- This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
- This is the documentation for the {{Single notice}} standardized template, as used by several single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).
See also:
- WP:Copying within Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Copyrights
- {{uw-copying}}, user warning about copying material from another article within Wikipedia
- {{uw-unattribcc}}, user warning about copying material from another Creative Commons licensed site
- {{uw-copyright}}, user warning template about copying material from outside Wikipedia
- {{unattributed translation}}, maintenance template for an article with content translated from another Wikipedia