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Paralympic project

Since you are bilingual, I was wondering if you would be interested in translating a couple of small articles in French for me? Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Sure! I won't commit to any ETA because my I'm a gold medalist in lazy procrastination but toss me what you need and I'll get it done eventually! :D ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 22:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

  No deadline! Thank you! Take your time. The articles are small: Maude Jacques and Cindy Ouellet. I sometimes forget that not all Canadians can speak English very well. But these two can. In fact, Maude was translating for me in Beijing. I tried auto-translating one once, but they delete unless the French is perfect, and mine's terrible. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

  I'll be honoured to work on the articles! The most complicated thing will be to figure out the frwiki versions of the various templates used. ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

  Hawkeye7 - Haven't had time to delve into this but I'm keeping this thread unarchived as a reminder. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Game hint lines

I came across an article in GamePro about live game counselors and 900 hint lines which has one or two useful pieces of info. The trouble is, I can't seem to find an article on Misplaced Pages where such information might appropriately go. Any suggestions?--Martin IIIa (talk) 20:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

There's probably enough coverage to convert Nintendo Power Line into a broader concept of Video Game hint lines, of which the most famous was the Nintendo Power Line: Kotaku, A.V. Club, the line was revived for the NES Mini launch (Engadget, CNet, Polygon), Wikia (unusable as a source but can be used as a base for research), featured in The Wizard, that time when one number was bought by an sex company (N4G, NBC, Wired), Gamasutra, Felicia Day biography, Geek.com, Sierra Hint Line (this is an archive of 1989 Sierra Magazine), Sega, Konami also had their own Hint Lines. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 20:55, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Martin IIIa do you have a link to the GamePro article? ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Bumping thread for 60 days. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 16:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Agh, sorry it took me so unbelievably long to notice this post! To add insult to injury, no, I don't have a link, just a physical copy of the issue. It's issue 92, cover-dated May 1996, and the articles is on pages 14-15, if that helps at all.--Martin IIIa (talk) 15:48, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Ans you wouldn't happen to have a scan? ;D Ben—Salvidrim! ✉ 04:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

—  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 20:02, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Still something I'm interested in working on. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 01:15, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Quebec articles

You're most welcome! Funnily enough, you caught me right in the middle of wrestling with trying to find adequate sources to get a long-overdue article about the actor and writer Marcel Sabourin done!

I'm one of those editors who, while I don't write French well enough to actually be a contributor on FR as such, I can read it well enough to pull out the important facts from a newspaper or magazine article — and since we do have a problem with a lot of Quebec topics getting inadequately addressed on the English side, I do make an effort to help fill in some of the gaps when I can.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to a database of older French-language newspaper content the way I do for the major English dailies, so I'm mostly stuck with what I can find on Google — which (as with Sabourin right now) isn't always very solid or reliable for people whose peak notability and sourceability was 30 or 40 years ago instead of within the past few years. But I try to do the best I can with what I've got. Thanks again. Bearcat (talk) 20:52, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Well, if you ever need some help with French translations I'm your guy. I do whatever cleanup and wikifying I can but I'm not that good at creating brand new articles indeed! BAnQ has thousands of archived newspapers. Some source ideas for Marcel Sabourin that are not about specific works (these are too many to list but often not in-depth):

• http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/losstidcho/acteurs/marcel_sabourin/
• http://biographie.radio-canada.ca/biographie/personnalites/marcel-sabourin
• http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/spectacles-et-theatre/201309/27/01-4693946-ne-au-canada-francais-marcel-sabourin-demasque-la-betise.php
• http://www.agencegoodwin.com/fr/artistes/marcel-sabourin (primary)
• http://www.valleedurichelieuexpress.ca/actualites/societe/144571/les-noel-denfance-et-daujourdhui-de-marcel-sabourin
• http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5238,23621567&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&pageType=2&id_comedien=11
• https://voir.ca/cinema/2017/04/11/cest-le-coeur-qui-meurt-en-dernier-la-gloire-de-ma-mere/
• http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/culture_club/2013-2014/chronique.asp?idChronique=380110
• http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/630281/marcel-sabourin-prix-interpretation-masculine-l-autre-maison-37e-ffm-mathieu-roy
• http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/388363/il-faut-ouvrir-les-jeunes-a-toutes-les-formes-d-art

Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 21:03, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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03:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Looking to recreate User:Prisencolin/List of League of Legends champions

I believe this list meets the WP:CSC guideline, which I don't recall existed when the last AFD occurred in 2016.--Prisencolin (talk) 04:18, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

No. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 01:21, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Please explain? Thanks.--16:50, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) At it's core? WP:CSC isn't a notability guideline, but guidance on how to define the scope of a list. The notability guideline is WP:LISTN. @AngusWOOF: As info, as there appears to be some shopping going on. -- ferret (talk) 17:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

For the record I thought Angus' decline was absolutely on-point. And like Ferret said, CSC is a MOS guideline. It says "how" to write a list, not "if" a list topic is suitable. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 18:46, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU 00:53, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

• Coolio! For any curious talk page watchers, my first registered edit on July 29th, 2010 was providing images on a talk page ; my first registered mainspace edit was a year later on July 1st, 2011, fixing a lede . But, my first true TRUE edit was actually in June 2010, a typo correction! Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 01:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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