User talk:Explosivesnow

Hello, Explosivesnow!

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Please make use of the Show preview button. It gives you a preview of the edit you are making, allowing you to perfect your changes before you save the page. You can edit the whole article by clicking the edit button at the top of the page, which is preferable to editing multiple sections consecutively. — The preceding assigned comment was added by Tark {Finish Him! ▪ Contribs} 14:24, 25 February 2016 (PST)

Welcome to the magical world of translation.

Hola, amigo!

Welcome to the site! Now, I've been looking through, and corrected, the three pages you have translated and noticed the same mistakes in them all, so let me quickly give you a few editing tips for the future:

Tip 1. Templates are your friend
If you see an item in brackets (a weapon for example) and you need to translate it, it can be tedious to write *weapon*/es|*weapon in spanish*]] all the time, so use templates instead. By using two Braces, also called curly brackets ( { <-- these things), and adding in "item link|*item name in english*}}, it will automatically translate and link it for you, no questions asked ;)

Example: Pain Train. (english here because your Discussion page is linked to the english pages, but if you did it on a spanish page, it would take you to the spanish page)

Other useful templates are as follows:
DISPLAYTITLE:*insert title name*}} --> makes your pages have the name you want it to, if it should default to *English title/es*.
item name|*item name in english*}} --> does the same as item link, but it only translate it, without adding the link.
lang icon|*language*}} --> tells you what language an external link is in. looks like this in use (español) (English).

And last, but not least (as you missed this on all your pages) update link|*update in english}} --> translate an update name and links it to the spanish page. Remember to look in both the item box (release date) and the patch notes for the [[ with updates in them, as you need to link those, too.

2. Where to find and edit templates
If you stumble upon an infobox, hat, achievement, graph, etc. that isn't translated yet, or is out of date, and you want to do fix it, go to Template:Dictionary.
Here you will find all the Templates and their translations. (You can see what templates are used on the page you're on, at the bottom of its editing page)

3. Use the "Show" button
I know Tark just said it above, but yeah... Use it!;)

That was all for now.
Good luck with the translations and have fun! :) Faghetti V.2 (talk) 18:00, 4 March 2016 (PST)