Template:Uw-translation

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from one or more pages to another page. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:

NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.

Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.

Template documentation

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Usage

{{subst:Uw-translation}}
{{subst:Uw-translation|Article translated from}} references a specific article translated from
{{subst:Uw-translation|Article translated from|Additional text}} adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"
{{subst:Uw-translation||Additional text}} or {{subst:Uw-translation|2=Additional text}} also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article translated from.
: {{subst:Uw-translation|to=Target article}} references a specific target article for translated content

{{subst:Uw-translation|xx:Article translated from|to=Target article}} references the specific articles translated from and to (user language_code:article_name to link to a foreign language WP article)

{{subst:Uw-translation|xx:Article translated from|to=Target article|Additional text}} references the specific articles translated from and to, as well as additional text

Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-translation}} rather than {{Uw-translation}}.

To customize your message, parameters are available; one to add the article name, and one to add additional text at the end of the message. If your param value contains an equal sign (as urls often do), then be sure to explicitly specify the positional parameter by number; i.e., use |1= or |2= followed by the value; e.g., |1=XYZ=Repainting, or |2=https://www.bbc.com/search?q=Kent+weather.

Notes

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