Talk:Orwell

RFC discussion: January 2022
Back in September of 2019, added over 90 translations to this entry in less than half an hour, everything from Amharic to Thai. This has all the hallmarks of blind importation from a list somewhere. A couple of months later, I tagged the Old English translation as an obvious temporal anachronism, but I didn't think to look at the revision history to find out who added it.

Two comments: first, Koavf should have known better than to dump a ton of translations into an entry in languages he doesn't know- we've blocked people permanently for doing this. Second, something will have to be done to verify or remove all of these. The widespread use of this in the more common languages, combined with the fact that many dictionaries don't include names, is going to make that very, very hard. Not to mention the issue of code-switching vs. unadapted borrowings. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:59, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I removed them: they were from Wikidata and Wikipedias. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * For visibility also: 1, 2, 3, and 4. These two 1 and 2 are from over a decade ago and I did not remove all of them. Let me know if you think I should do so. The process for all most of these was looking at the Wikipedia articles' interwiki links or Wikidata, and as I recall, I used an online name dictionary for the "Justin" edit from way back and possibly the 2017 additions as well . —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I noticed a similar edit at Akhenaten a month later, and there may be others. This kind of thing happens from time to time, but usually it's some IP who comes up with what they think no one else has ever thought of before: harvesting all the names used in other wikis and adding them as translations. They don't realize that editors in many of the smaller Wikipedias who can't think of the correct name tend to just make up something up so they can write about it. Wiki-only terms get deleted at RFVN all the time. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * And thank you. I can't recall any other times that I used this scheme but I confess there may be a few. As you can see, I have mostly reserved it for personal names/proper nouns, where I felt like the 1:1 correspondence would be a lot better or more likely than quotidian words, but I realize that this is a problem either way. I won't use this method in the future. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)