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Commons:Village pump

‎indicating file description language: of course without a large community of people willing to translate things, it would just create another backlog :)
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: That's useful, but doesn't seem quite right for files that are described perfectly adequately but in a language that is not widely read. [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 18:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

: That's useful, but doesn't seem quite right for files that are described perfectly adequately but in a language that is not widely read. [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 18:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:::no, it's intended for such files: ''The description for this file does not provide enough information to adequately identify the subject to a broad audience. Please provide enough detail so that the subject can be identified by readers of at least some major language (from which others can translate further). A description in English should be added if possible.'' {{tlx|1=Description insufficient|2=he}} would be for Hebrew. [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] ([[User talk:Rd232|talk]]) 21:34, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:::no, it's intended for such files: ''The description for this file does not provide enough information to adequately identify the subject to a broad audience. Please provide enough detail so that the subject can be identified by readers of at least some major language (from which others can translate further). A description in English should be added if possible.'' {{tlx|1=Description insufficient|2=he}} would be for Hebrew. [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] ([[User talk:Rd232|talk]]) 21:34, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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::::It's certainly a much better idea than [[Commons:Requests for translation]], which is a mess. {{tl|Description insufficient}} is a fine idea, but the name isn't too great. Also what constitutes a "major language" is a problem - if I think it would be helpful for something to be translated from Chinese into English, there's no point in saying the description is insufficient because hundreds of millions of people already understand it. Unfortunately, English is kind of the ''de facto'' default language on Commons. (Of course I am saying that I should be able to tag stuff for translation into English (I'm too lazy to learn anything else :P). Or to specify a target language. --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 09:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

::Agree, it's no good because you may as well consider every image on commons to be in that category, and therefore you don't need a tag. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 18:31, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

::Agree, it's no good because you may as well consider every image on commons to be in that category, and therefore you don't need a tag. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 18:31, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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