User talk:Augend

--Jan Kameníček (talk) 16:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Chinese declaration of war against France, 26 August 1884
Thanks very much for contributing here. May I ask about the source of the English translation of Chinese declaration of war against France, 26 August 1884 which you have added today? I am asking because we can accept only works which are in public domain or were published under a free license. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 16:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The source is the Chinese version (光緒十年對法宣戰詔書), which I have linked to the English page now. Being a government document of the Qing dynasty, it should have been grandfathered in through successive regimes and remains public domain today. The translation was partially machine, with my edits for clarity here and there. Augend (talk) 16:08, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. I am very sorry, but machine translations cannot be included here. Wikisource can host only previously published works which are in public domain or were published under a free license. For details see WS:What Wikisource includes. Besides that Wikisource also accepts user’s own translations in the Translations namespace, but adding new works into this namespace is slightly complicated: for details see Translations, including the rule that a scan of the original work must be present at the appropriate language Wikisource, which in our case means Chinese Wikisource. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 16:39, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah I see. That's unfortunate. What can we do here now? I'm pretty sure a scan can be found; in the meantime, can the file be transferred over to a draft or sandbox namespace? Augend (talk) 16:42, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Done, you can find it at your personal sandbox which I have created for you at User:Augend/Sandbox. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 16:49, 1 August 2022 (UTC)