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Happy editing! Jay8g [V•T•E] 01:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I understand, sorry I am new to this. VitoxxMass (talk) 13:20, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it ok to translate word by word articles on wikipedia in other languages onto English? If not, you are free to remove my Corsican contribution. I did credit the Italian page, however, in my edit log. VitoxxMass (talk) 13:23, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome to translate content from Wikipedias in other languages, as long as you provide proper attribution following the instructions at Help:Translation#Licensing. It looks like you did this correctly in your edit to History of Corsica, so there shouldn't be any issue with your translations! It was only your edits where you copied from journal articles and other sources that presented copyright issues. MCE89 (talk) 13:31, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi VitoxxMass. Thank you for your work on Ivan Nagiba. Another editor, Voorts, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

I used Google translate for the source and got almost word for word the translation provided here. Do not create articles based solely on Google translations. If you do not read Russian or cannot translate from Russian to English, you should not be creating articles like this.

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voorts (talk/contributions) 21:09, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ivan Nagiba moved to draftspace

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Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:09, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Note this means you cannot edit the section on Greta Thunberg and the ship

Please don't do that again. Also, you cannot use the talk page except to INITIATE an edit request as spelled out at the top. Than ks. Doug Weller talk 11:36, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Abu Simbel (village)

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Abu Simbel and the cult of Isis

Hello. I have reverted your addition to the Isis article, and your similar one to Abu Simbel (village), for a couple of reasons.

First, the UNESCO page that you cited is discussing not only Abu Simbel but several monument sites—"from Abu Simbel to Philae", as it says it the title—and the paragraph that you seem to be drawing upon switches topic from Abu Simbel to Philae partway through: "The monuments of the property include exceptional architecture, such as the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, carved out of an escarpment of solid rock. Its design and layout allow rays of the sun to penetrate to the innermost chamber twice annually on the equinoxes. Philae above the first cataract was the great Ptolemaic sanctuary of the goddess Isis - renowned since Greco-Roman antiquity for its temples and their annexes. The final bastion of ancient Egyptian religion, the rites of the cult of Isis persisted there until the 9th century CE." So the text about the cult of Isis is actually talking about the temple complex at Philae, not Abu Simbel.

Second, the source I quoted seems to have made an error itself. As is described in a footnote in the Isis article, scholars believed for a long time, based on a passage in the works of the Byzantine historian Procopius, that the cult of Isis was practiced at Philae until it was destroyed by the general Narses somewhere in the 530s. But in the past 20 years, that belief has been challenged, because Procopius's account shows that he didn't very well understand what happened at Philae, where he had never been, and the evidence on the ground at Philae suggests that the cult died out decades earlier, not long after the 450s. Several sources cited in the article discuss these problems in detail. I don't know why the UNESCO page says "9th century", but my best guess is that somebody was following the traditional view of events and misread or mistyped "9th" instead of "6th". A. Parrot (talk) 15:34, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is fine, I appreciate the message. Obviously, I have nothing to refute to this, as it quite makes sense. Either way, thanks for your formality! VitoxxMass (talk) 18:23, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]