Template:Unattributed translation
Adds a banner to the top of a page or section suspected of having an unattributed translation from another Wikipedia or Wikimedia project, and the need for possible retroactive repair.
Usage
[edit ]{{Unattributed translation}}
{{Unattributed translation|section}}
{{Unattributed translation|source=Other source}}
When
[edit ]This template is designed to be used to flag an article or section of an article that appears to contain content translated from another Wikipedia, or other Wikimedia project page, but which lacks the required attribution attribution statement in the edit summary, as required by the Terms of use.
This situation usually occurs when an editor has translated content from a foreign Wikipedia and saved the edit without including an attribution statement in the edit summary, either because they were unaware of this requirement, or because they forgot to include it. The lack of attribution can be remedied after the fact, as explained at WP:CWW#Repairing insufficient attribution.
If you know or can find out who added the translation to English Wikipedia, you can notify them on their talk page and ask them to provide attribution retroactively. The template {{uw-translation }} may be used for this.
When not
[edit ]If an article has content that appears to contain content translated from another Wikipedia or other Wikimedia project page and lacks the required attribution attribution statement, and you know where it came from, then it is not necessary to use this template—you can apply the translation attribution yourself. Please follow the instructions about how to add missing attribution for an article. Do not add attribution yourself unless you are certain where the translation came from.
If an article has content translated from books, journals, websites, or anything other than other Wikimedia projects, then do not use this template. There may be a serious breach of copyright needing immediate attention. In that case, please tag the page following advice at the how-to guide about copyright violations. More details at Wikipedia:Copyright violations.
Where
[edit ]The template should normally be placed among other maintenance templates near the top of the article page suspected of having an unattributed translation. For exact positioning, see MOS:ORDER. If the template applies only to content in a specific section, place it at the top of the section (and see parameter 1 below).
Parameters
[edit ]Two parameters, both optional:
|1= – scope of issue: the word section, paragraph, etc. (optional; default = "article")
|2= – source where content was translated from; e.g., "Wikisource", "German Wikipedia", etc. (alias: |source=; optional; default: "another Wikipedia")
When to remove
[edit ]You may remove this template from a page if it was placed incorrectly (please explain at Talk in that case), or when it no longer applies because you have added a properly formatted translation attribution statement to the revision history of the page using a dummy edit. The following is an example of an edit summary you can use and modify:
Note: Content in the previous edit of 22:14, 32 Octember 2024 is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
See WP:CWW#Repairing insufficient attribution for further details.
Examples
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{{Unattributed translation}} |
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{{Unattributed translation}} → Content in this article appears to be missing required attribution as a translation from another Wikipedia. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. It may require retroactive attribution to comply with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. See Copying within Wikipedia and Repairing insufficient attribution. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
2.
{{Unattributed translation|source=Wikisource}} |
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{{Unattributed translation|source=Wikisource}} → Content in this article appears to be missing required attribution as a translation from Wikisource. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. It may require retroactive attribution to comply with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. See Copying within Wikipedia and Repairing insufficient attribution. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
3.
{{UnAttr|section|French Wikipedia}} |
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{{UnAttr|section|French Wikipedia}} → Content in this section appears to be missing required attribution as a translation from French Wikipedia. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. It may require retroactive attribution to comply with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. See Copying within Wikipedia and Repairing insufficient attribution. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
4.
{{UTr|source=the Catalan article ''[[:ca:Jordi Pujol|]]''}} |
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Content in this article appears to be missing required attribution as a translation from the Catalan article Jordi Pujol . Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. It may require retroactive attribution to comply with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. See Copying within Wikipedia and Repairing insufficient attribution. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Find articles needing attribution
[edit ]You can find articles that are translations, and check that they have the proper attribution, by checking the page history. Some ways to find possible candidates:
- Find recently created articles tagged for creation by the Content translation tool: search .
- Find articles created by a given user: search User:Example . (replace 'Example' in '&target=Example' in the url with the userid)
- Check Draft talk pages that have the {{translated from }} template: search
- Check article Talk pages that have the {{translated from }} template: search
- Check articles translated from a specific language using a categories, e.g. French: search.
After you have found a translated article to check, go to the History tab, and search for an attribution string that looks like the one given at WP:TFOLWP or WP:RIA. As a start, you can just search-on-page for the string 'translat'.
If you have a particular user in mind who does translations, you can search their edit history:
- Check edit summaries of User:Example for the string 'translat': search User:Example history .
See also
[edit ]Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.