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What do you think? [[User:Largoplazo|Largoplazo]] ([[User talk:Largoplazo|talk]]) 23:34, 4 October 2020 (UTC) |
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Thanks for your input! I am an intern and it's my job to try to add these videos on as many pages as I feel might benefit from their placement/where they might be appropriate. I see what you're saying and I will try to be more picky about where to put the videos if the pages really digress from them but I can't promise that I will be only posting them on that specific language page if I feel like there are others that may benefit from it. I see what you are saying though, I appreciate the feedback, and I will try to be more discerning. |
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[[User:Thehumantwig01|Jessica Britt]] ([[User talk:Thehumantwig01|talk]]) 23:51, 4 October 2020 (UTC)Jessica Britt |
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Norwegian language speaker
Hi, this is to let you know that the Wikitongues video you added to Norwegians and Norwegian language is not a native speaker, and this is why it were removed from those articles. Please do not re-add it without discussion as this constitutes edit warring. Regards, decltype
(talk) 10:46, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I'm so sorry, I didn't know that she wasn't a native speaker. Would it be alright with you if I added it back if I specify that she is not a native language speaker? Thanks, Jessica Britt (talk) 04:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)Jessica Britt
Placement of language videos in overly general articles
Hello. I'm interested in your addition of videos of people speaking one language or another in a number of articles, but I wonder if you'd consider adding them only to articles on those languages. For example, it makes sense to add the Afrikaans video to Afrikaans. In the article on the Dutch language, however, it's a digression from the topic the article is about, precisely because the Afrikaans language is covered in its own article. Even more so in Languages of South Africa: the article doesn't cover the languages themselves at all, only their use in South Africa. Singling out one of those languages for further examination seems to give it undue emphasis and seems off-topic; anyone who feels inclined to look specifically into Afrikaans while reading that article can, after all, browse to the article on it. Your addition of it to the article on the country, South Africa, is certainly overkill: "Here's what Afrikaans sounds like" is definitely out-of-scope for an article about a country. And Coloureds? Cape Malays? Not only are these further examples of an undue shift of focus, in these cases the video is illustrating someone who appears not even to be of either of those two groups, so it's even more off-topic.
Now I see another editor has already reverted your addition of the video to the Dutch language article, with an edit summary that indicates the same sentiment I've expressed here.
What do you think? Largoplazo (talk) 23:34, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your input! I am an intern and it's my job to try to add these videos on as many pages as I feel might benefit from their placement/where they might be appropriate. I see what you're saying and I will try to be more picky about where to put the videos if the pages really digress from them but I can't promise that I will be only posting them on that specific language page if I feel like there are others that may benefit from it. I see what you are saying though, I appreciate the feedback, and I will try to be more discerning. Jessica Britt (talk) 23:51, 4 October 2020 (UTC)Jessica Britt