Template talk:Not English

message: I think this template should be changed or deleted.  Deletion is too harsh, and it makes Wikipedia really biased. - Allyunion 14:49, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The English Wikipedia is an English language encyclopedia. Articles that aren't in English don't belong here. Articles that are not in English need to be translated or moved, they can't stay here. -- Cyrius|✎ 15:03, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Je ne crois que les pages en autres langues si soyez dans le wikipedia anglais.  Ca c'est stupide. Dunc_Harris|☺ 16:01, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Minnasan wa eigo ga wakaru jya nai yo, jp.wikipedia.org wa iku imasu. ... wow, my Japanese is horrible. And to think, I have a degree in the bloody language. --Golbez 16:04, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "みんなは英語が分かるわけじゃないよ。日本語の記事はjp.wikipedia.orgに移動される。" any good ;-)? --Ianb 23:42, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Showoff. :P --Golbez 15:23, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  no degree but I live there, hihi ;-) --Ianb 21:24, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Bah, so you know just how pathetic mine was. :P --Golbez 22:19, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Instämmer med Cyrius. Vad är det för mening med att ha såna artiklar här? Vad är själva poängen? Jag fattar ingenting. Bishonen 01:23, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually think it's to nice. Whenever I find articles in not-english, (and not in a language I know better, or at least have some other insight in) I suspect it's vandalism. How could I know if it is death-threats? Or some claims of people the author is in conflict with is perverse, or something? I don't know. Personally, I think this template should be replaced with a speedy template for contributions not in English. Greswik 13:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  changed or deleted? 

message: Criterion #2 of the Criterion for Speedy Deletion states that Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project can summarily be speedily deleted. If this is the case, the template needs a disclaimer to say that it can only be applied to articles not covered by any other encyclopedia. I've placed a similar query at the talk page for speedy deletion, but one or the other needs to be amended. GeeJo (t) (c) 14:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Can be speedy-deleted doesn't mean must be. Often at Wikipedia:Page needing translation into English we decide to do a rescue, because we go "gee, we really should have this article". The decision is probably best made there. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  If already covered by another Wikipedia 

message: I reverted to the version with the instructions visible on the main template, without an extra click. My reason is that I feel (I have no statistics, though) that the number of new pages that were added to CAT:PNT without being listed on WP:PNT was lower while the instruction were directly visible. Kusma (討論) 21:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm with you on this. - Jmabel | Talk 05:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instructions 

message: I've added a Google translation link. Please see Wikipedia talk:Pages needing translation into English#Google translations - Nabla (talk) 18:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google translation 

message: Is this template still used? I thought non english articles just got speedy deleted now? --BozMo talk 21:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The speedy deletion is supposed to be performed performed if and only if an article exists in the Wikipedia whose language is the same one the non-English article on this Wikipedia is written in. Therefore, if the article is in Arabic and an article of the same title does not exist in the Arabic Wikipedia, the speedy deletion is invalid. If such an article exists in the Arabic Wikipedia, speedy deletion is performed. Jesse Viviano (talk) 02:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  question 

message: This template already took a second unnamed argument and used it to replace the word "article" in the template box, but it left in place the warning, applicable only to entire articles, that if the translation doesn't take place within two weeks, the article will be deleted or moved to another Wiki project. I changed this for the case where the second unnamed argument is "section", substituting the text, "Please see this article's entry on Pages needing translation into English for discussion. If the section is not rewritten in English it may be deleted." —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:39, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections 

message: The Bing Translator is better than the Google Translator. 1.55.104.176 (talk) 11:31, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bing Translator]] versus [[Google Translator]] 

message: I'd like to change Template:Translate, which currently redirects here, into an updated and consolidated version of the Template:Expand language templates for translation requests.  Please discuss at Wikipedia talk:Translation/Archive 3#Repurposing Template:Translate?. Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing [[Template:Translate]] 

message: I would appreciate a template whiz making the following improvements to this template:
*First, allow  since this is what people would expect to happen.
*Second, allow standard two-letter language abbrevations (fr, jp, zh)
I would appreciate that. Thank you, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:15, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested improvements 

message: I just modified this template so that pages tagged with it will not appear on search engines. I suspect that spammers intentionally post spam in the wrong language Wikipedia to delay review and deletion of the page. For example, a German spammer posts on the English Wikipedia, and the new page patroller, not speaking German, tags as notenglish but doesn't delete. Meanwhile, their spam is appearing for Germans using search engines. Using noindex would help avoid this damage. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 05:18, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, noindex doesn't work in the article namespace – see the documentation at Template:Noindex. Graham87 14:59, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Don't the speedy delete tags noindex? How do those worK? Oiyarbepsy (talk) 16:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Apart from very obscure languages non-english spam pages do not last long once they're tagged, someone at WP:PNT will take care of them fairly quickly. --Jac16888 Talk 16:34, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noindex 

message: Hey guys! I have a proposition for this template, which is to add the date on which the article it is placed on may be deleted. It would then look like this:

When the two weeks are up, the template will look like this:



Let me know what you think! -- rayukk | talk 19:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it's not actually accurate. The actual procedure is that it needs to be listed at WP:PNT for two weeks, not just tagged, and even then after the two weeks it has to be prodded or afd'd, it cannot just be deleted outright--Jac16888 Talk 13:44, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

text: Sorry but I should have replied to this sooner. I have reverted your changes to this tag, for the time being. The reason being is that the deadline is not firm as your tag implies, nor does every article which has the tag added actually want to be deleted if not translated in two weeks, for example if an article is partially translated, or there is one section which requires translation. The prodding of an article after two weeks has always been a manual process and I believe it should remain so, so as to allow editors to review first--Jac16888 Talk 20:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dated 

message: OK, thank you for your input! I have adjusted the template accordingly:
When the time is up, a  template will be added to the article. Also, the proposed deletion will only be added if the listed= parameter is set as true (yes), meaning the article was listed at WP:PNT. --rayukk | talk 18:48, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry but I should have replied to this sooner. I have reverted your changes to this tag, for the time being. The reason being is that the deadline is not firm as your tag implies, nor does every article which has the tag added actually want to be deleted if not translated in two weeks, for example if an article is partially translated, or there is one section which requires translation. The prodding of an article after two weeks has always been a manual process and I believe it should remain so, so as to allow editors to review first--Jac16888 Talk 20:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Template revisions

message: There's an error in the URL encoding for the Malay wikipedia. When you tag a page with this template and specify Malay as the language, it encodes "msa:" as the prefix in the title= parameter, which always results in a redlink, however according to meta:List_of_Wikipedias the proper prefix is just "ms:". RegistryKey(RegEdit) 02:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in language forwarding 

message: This template says that you're not supposed to use it on drafts. Would it be fine to put a switch template that shows the text 
? LOOKSQUARE (👤️·🗨️) talk 22:57, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drafts