User talk:Urco

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Contents 1 My talk 2 edits to chilote mythology 3 Adding a Category for Anti-Masonry 4 Category: Anti-Masonry 5 Nerd Pride Day

[edit] My talk

[edit] edits to chilote mythology

I've noted your edits to Chilote mythology which add some new material to the articles. It would be useful if you cite your sources when you add new material, otherwise, material which you edit may be subject to removal because they haven't been sourced and all your efforts left for nothing.

Also I can't understand your latest entry:

To kill to the Basislico chilote, it is necessary to burn the malicious egg; and if the Basislico chilote was already born, single already can be assassinated if it is burned the house in where attacks and lives the Basislico chilote

If you want to, give me the idea in Spanish and I'll see if we can put it into a better form, but as it stands now in English, it doesn't make much sense. Add your reply here, I'll watch this page for a few days. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 16:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

• Hello.

All information that I add comes from translations of the articles of wikipedia in Spanish; which is wikipedia of the original language of Chiloé, and therefore it contains the original and more correct versions of these legends. In addition I come from this zone.

If there are some errors in the translation(my level of English is intermediate), you can correct seeing them these articles in wikipedia in Spanish --Urco 20:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe that my would be good also for translating these articles of wikipedia in Spanish.--Urco 20:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Doubt, version: Trauco an alien? and in Chiloé (mytological origin), descendants of extraterrestrials?. In articles in Spanish does not exist any relation with extraterrestrial- --Urco 21:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

While it is helpful in translating a wiki from another language into the English version, we have to be careful in placing too much trust into the value of that information.

Wikipedia does not consider another Wikipedia article to be a valid reference source for information, but prefers to have information which has been published in some other form ... the highest being some acedemic publication which was prepared by some authority in the field. If the foreign language version of an article doesn't have such references, (or, even worse doesn't have any) the translation will be of lesser value.

If the translation you do contains any references, the best plan is to first check the reference (if you can) to confirm that the information from it is correctly used in the article, and then mention this source in the English article in the references or source section.

Regarding your doubt about the Trauco and the other article all of the material I added came from:

Martinez Vilches, Oscar, Chiloe Misterioso (in Spanish). Pub. Ediciones de la Voz de Chiloe (circa 1998)

but I ommitted to add this into the articles as a reference source as I did in Coi Coi-Vilu. I think I realized that I should be including sources after I started adding material about the myths and simply forgot to get around to doing this. (Now I've got another item on my to-do list.)

By the way, I find your English quite good, but it is sometime difficult to express some complex ideas into an understandable translation. I probably get into the same sort of trouble when I try to translate from English into Spanish. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 16:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding a Category for Anti-Masonry

I have no problem with adding a category for Anti-Masonry... but it should be a sub-cat of the larger one for Freemasonry. In other words, please add the category where appropriate ... but don't substitute it for the one for Freemasonry. Thanks. Blueboar 17:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, having seen the arguments in the CfD discussion mentioned below, I now think the cat is duplicative. I can live with it, but don't think it's needed. Blueboar 18:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category: Anti-Masonry

I've put it up for deletion, as it's POV, and the articles in the category are already in the main category. MSJapan 17:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The Antisemitism category refers to a well-known phenomenon, and there's no such word as "Semitism". Moreover, many of the anti-Communist articles are listed in both Communism and anti-Communism, and there's a lot more of them, with many more subdivisions. That's just not going to happen with seven articles for Anti-Masonry. MSJapan 05:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nerd Pride Day

I think both nerd or geek might be appropiate translations for friki; as you see, both words appear in my article. Nevertheless, I've chosen nerd for the official translation, as it implies a wider concept, which I think is more appropriate to the celebration (please, listen to [this song]). Geek has a more strict meaning, referrerring only to computer geeks, or otakus, and thus, it will encourage less people to celebrate this festivity, from my point of view. One more thing: I reverted your changes speaking about Hispano-American celebration, because I have no notice of this being observed in Latin America, only in Spain (though it would be great if this holiday is globalised!). However, if you might include some data proving that fact, I'll be happy to see it and the article would of course include it.LeChimp 09:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)