User talk:Land Moil

Science 2.0

Do you have a reference for the addition about Robert Dunn?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

---Added a couple of references. Hope it helps.--Land Moil (talk) 05:51, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Question

Would you please translate the entry "pt:Críticas à Rede Globo" for the wiki-en? Thankfully. 177.182.54.27 (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

--- I'd happily look into it once I have a break, if nobody else steps to the challenge. --Land Moil (talk) 05:55, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedian: before you set to work on it, allow me to alert you to the suspiciousness of this request. Please take a look at this user's contributions. Notice that they have never done anything else besides asking dozens of other users to translate an article into English. This user literally popped out of nowhere to ask for something nobody has ever asked before. I mean, is there anyone else interested in this translation? Why does this user want it? And why haven't they presented any reason for it? Please notice also that the English article Rede Globo criticism is actually a redirect to Rede Globo#Controversy. Apparently, Rede Globo criticism was once an actual article whose content seems to have been deleted due to lack of usefulness, as you can see in its talk page. This seems oddly suspicious to me. Please talk some time to consider if this project is really worth your time (notice that it's a huge page in the original version). Thank you! -- Sim(ã)o(n) * ^{Talk to me!} _{See my} efforts! 16:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

---Thank you for pointing it out. I'd probably have to go through those pages before creating such article anyway. Regardless, it is an interesting piece of information, and the Portuguese version doesn't really reflect things like the political role of the "entity" for very long when one adds it. I don't mind that someone went about asking every translator to do that... honestly, I've done a lot of stuff without being logged in as well, and if people are as bad as I am about logging in, the person probably has a point in putting all those requests. :) --Land Moil (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I agree with you (though I'm not that bad at logging in; I never do any change without logging in). I also thought about actually translating it (notice that it is a featured article in the Portuguese Wikipedia). Nevertheless, I believe that we should first investigate to see if there is any interest in this idea on the part of some more "serious" users, don't you think? I mean, who is this guy? Why does he want it? A guy commented on my talk page wondering if he would be just some guy who would have to do that as a homework and who's trying to find out someone else to do it... I think we should wait and investigate, and perhaps even contact an administrator (though I'm not sure how we'd do that). So far, I have found nothing that would give me enough good reason to move on. But it's really your choice. -- Sim(ã)o(n) * ^{Talk to me!} _{See my} efforts! 21:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

---Actually, if I like the article, I don't care if the person wants that for political interest, or for genuine interest, or use for homework. Even in the last case, in the end, if they just want to copy the information, it's their loss for not learning, not mine. So really in this case I don't think it's worth it to waste time wondering who is this person. :) his/her only sin may have been spamming a request. --Land Moil (talk) 07:45, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Use your best judgement. I cannot forbid anyone from doing so. I am simply warning you of the problems that are inherent to this request. Personally, I would like to help, but I would rest more assured if I were able to get some further insight into this weird request. If you think it's not "worth it to waste time wondering who is this person", I think that it is not worth it to waste time actually translating a huge article just because an unidentifiable IP, who has never done anything else in Wikipedia, has asked a bunch of users to do it, for no apparent reason, via nonstandard means for requesting a translation. But that's just my opinion. Again, use your best judgement and do as you wish. As for me, I shall probably just accompany the progress of the situation, keep on investigating, and not start the translation until I'm more confident there's good reason to do it. Happy editing! -- Sim(ã)o(n) * ^{Talk to me!} _{See my} efforts! 20:45, 11 December 2014 (UTC)