User talk:Dix

Hello, Dix!

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-- WelcomeBOT (talk) 09:55, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Arabic translations

Hi there,

I've seen you've been translating some pages into Arabic, but please note that currently Arabic is a deprecated language on the Wiki as well as in TF2 itself.
GrampaSwood (talk) 13:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Page creation

Hi,

Please be careful on translating articles by mistakenly not following the consistency of the wiki. As stated in the translation guidelines:

3) Navigate to the new language by adding "/LANGUAGE" to the end of the article where LANGUAGE is replaced with the ISO639-1 code of the language you wish to translate to, found here

Example: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Scout/fr

4)Paste the code of the English page to the new one.

The French version of the article "Weapons" would be Weapons/fr, not Armes, Weapons/Armes or Armes/fr

Moreover, you don’t need to sign your translations, you can see in the History tab who created/edited any article.

Additional side note:

Please use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:XXX}}, in order to show the correct translated name of the article.

Like here as an example.

Yossef • Talk 11:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Adding languages to Templates

Hi,

When adding languages to Templates, please make sure that the language code is alphabetically ordered in the language list, with the English code being first. I highly recommend you to read the translation switch guidelines, in order to have a better insight on how Templates works and how it can be used.

Yossef • Talk 12:37, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

The character we use is the vertical bar (|) not a capital i (I).
GrampaSwood (talk) 12:26, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia linking

Hi there,

To link non-English Wikipedia articles, add the language code in front of it. See this page for more details on how to link them. Please also avoid using translated names as links, so instead of [[Dubeltówka]], it would be [[Scattergun/pl|Dubeltówka]].
GrampaSwood (talk) 14:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

hey grampaswood!

thanks for telling me this! I’ve finally figured it out with your help! Thanks!

Dix (talk) 14:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Np, that's what I'm here for. Do note that not all Wikipedia pages have translated variants. Use the English link and then add {{lang icon}} after it if it doesn't have one.
GrampaSwood (talk) 15:04, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Dictionary edits

Hi there,

Please remember to include an empty line between the last dictionary entry and the next one. Otherwise, this will break the dictionary.
GrampaSwood (talk) 21:19, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey! I forgot to include an empty line between the last dictionary entry and the next one. I also didn’t know that it’ll break the dictionary Thanks for notifying me about this! Dix (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Template/Article Creation in the Main Namespace

Hi!

Please refrain from creating articles/templates for testing/personal/miscellaneous purposes in the main namespace. It is encouraged for users to create a Sandbox for these types of purposes in their user pages.

For Example:

• User:Dix/Sandbox1
• https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:Dix/Sandbox1

Moreover, if you have a suggestion for creating a new Template, please open a discussion here.

Yossef • Talk 10:56, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Uploading Images

Hi Dix,

Thanks for contributing to the wiki, however please make sure that there are no existing images of the file you want to upload.

As for the Smissmas background, it already exists.

Yossef • Talk 11:55, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Translating other languages

Hi there,

Google translate is strictly forbidden to use in translations, please don't add information to pages in languages you don't speak.
GrampaSwood (talk) 17:08, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

What’s up, sorry, I thought it was necessary to add a missing video

I apologize and I will never do it again, thanks for informing me about it Dix (talk) 17:55, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Adding the video isn't the problem, the fact that you added translated sections of languages you don't speak through Google Translate is the problem. Additionally, you added Dutch to the German page.
GrampaSwood (talk) 18:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)