User talk:72.66.89.79

Hello, 72.66.89.79, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page.

Please note that we host works as they were originally written/published, without updating the texts to fit a more modern understanding. I'm glad to see that you're not only reading about the Gallic Wars, but that you have an interest in improving our project - I simply have to point out that unfortunately your revisions have been counter-productive. However, if you would like to help us out a great deal, you could add wikilinks that link to the names of notable battles, persons and locations to their respective wikipedia articles. So if you update "''Then John Doe took a sword..." to "Then John Doe took a sword...", then it will appear as "Then John Doe took a sword..."'', allowing other interested readers to go read the full history of that battle, person or location. Welcome to the project! Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Napoleon Bonaparte 01:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Is not the English version of the Latin passage just one modern understanding of the original passage? The edits that I made did nothing to compromise the original Latin-- in fact, to the best of my knowledge, they made our English translation closer to the original Latin. This passage was originally written and published in Latin-- so any English translation of Latin texts that claims to be as they were originally written/published must follow as closely as possible grammar of the original texts.72.66.89.79 02:13, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Indeed, to be honest, I don't dispute that your edits made the works "better" quite honestly - the trouble is, what we're publishing isn't "Julius Caesar's thoughts on the war, as accurately translated into English as possible", but "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn's translation of Julius Caesar's work". It's ugly and boring, I admit - but it's unlikely that we (including you) are going to take the time to re-translate the entire work from Latin, sadly - so we are stuck with what we have, which is the McDevitte/Bohn translation.  Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Napoleon Bonaparte 02:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, that makes more sense. I never really saw a "We are using this (McDevitte/Bohn's) translation" anywhere, so I was unsure as of where we were getting all this English from. Thanks. 72.66.89.79 02:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, now I do: "Translation based on W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869)". Gotcha. 72.66.89.79 02:49, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Not a problem, glad to help :) Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Napoleon Bonaparte 02:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)