User talk:Genelingo56

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Bogus translations

Wiktionary is a descriptive dictionary, so we only include terms that are or have been in actual use (see WT:CFI). There have been no fluent speakers of Old English since at least half a millenium before there was ever anything remotely like a bus station, let alone an airport, so any term for either obviously has been made up. It doesn't matter whether you made it up or it was someone else- we don't allow it, and the fact that you would add translations with such nonsense calls either your knowledge or your judgment into question. Yes, there are wikis in dead languages, and there are sources online for made-up words and phrases in dead languages, but we don't consider those to be valid sources. Also, phrasebook translations should be for (potentially) actual use, not for the benefit of those who like to play with languages.

Do not add any more translations in languages you don't know, since you obviously have no clue about verifying their accuracy. That goes double for phrasebook entries- even if you get the translations to the point that they literally mean the same thing, they may come across as artificial and foreign.

You may think you're doing everyone a favor by tapping into online sources that have information that we don't. The problem is that these tend to contain a certain percentage of garbage (for dead languages like Old English that approaches 100 percent). The expertise necessary to spot and remove the garbage is very rare and better used for coming up with authentic new content. Worse, the garbage may never be spotted by someone with the right knowledge and end up misleading our readers for decades.

Although you probably didn't register your account with the intent of degrading the reliablity of a useful online resource, that's what you ended up actually doing. Please be more careful from now on. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Don't use Google Translate...

... or any other automated translation service to add translations to Wiktionary. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 10:00, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Fun Fact™️: if you type "beoþ ge gehiwod" into Google Translate, it identifies it as Chinese... Chuck Entz (talk) 10:29, 6 March 2022 (UTC)