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Sometimes an article is published here in another language by mistake, or is poorly translated into English from one of the approximately 300 Wikipedias in other languages, and requires retranslation or attention from bilingual editors to bring it up to English Wikipedia standards. Articles in poorly translated English should be listed here.
Find pages that need translation or proofreading, and add them to the list on this page. See #Standard procedures for how to do this. Find a page that is already in the list (see #Translated pages that could still use some cleanup ) and help translate it.
Translation Guidelines When translating articles from one language Wikipedia to another: Accuracy: Ensure that you translate the meaning correctly without introducing errors or personal opinions. Neutrality: The article must maintain a neutral tone, even if the original article contains biased language or controversial topics.
Wikipedia: Pages needing translation into English/Procedures. 1 language.
When an article makes use of images from Wikimedia Commons that have text that needs to be translated, such as for diagrams or figures, the request for translation can be made at Commons:Requests for translation, following which the image can be listed at the Wikipedia:Graphics Lab for inserting the translated text.
A translation is a derivative work. Wikipedia articles are under a copyleft license that requires attribution to the original source and authors in all derivative works. How to do this is described on Translating from other language Wikimedia projects. Required – the new, translated article must credit the source article:
Engrish is a slang term for the inaccurate, poorly translated, nonsensical or ungrammatical use of the English language by native speakers of other languages. [1] The word itself relates to Japanese speakers' tendency to struggle to pronounce the English / l / and / r / distinctly arising from the fact Japanese has only one liquid phoneme ...
For articles that have translation issues, but have enough acceptable English-language content that they are not subject to deletion for that reason. {Please do not add machine translations of foreign language articles to Wikipedia. Due to their poor quality, they are generally not useful and can be very difficult to fix.