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[edit] Translation of text from es.wiki
this page could use some serious editing--the language seems to have been mistranslated in several places within the first several paragraphs.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.8.79.47 (talk • contribs) 8 November 2006.
- I have (temporarily) reverted the recent additions, which gave every appearance of being just a straight machine-translation of the spanish text in the es.wiki equivalent article. Generally machine translations such as this should be avoided, and they cause more work and difficulty to fix up the subtle and not-so-subtle errors (including those which are unintentionally amusing, eg "whose only city of in El Salvador was Expensive Dirty" ) when there is no guarantee that anyone will get around to correcting these any time soon. The imported wikilinks also refer to es.wiki articles, which either are spelled differently in en.wiki or may not exist at all.
- If material from the es.wiki equivalent is to be imported here, in order to avoid confusion and comments such as the anonymous one above I would suggest that the text first be placed on some temporary subpage, eg History of El Salvador/Translation, where it can be worked on separately without compromising the article. Then, as and when it is knocked into some sort of shape it can be transferred across here.
- While there's no doubt a fair amount of useful information in the import, none of it is accompanied by references and several elements seem a bit questionable, such as the Cuzcatlán becoming the Pipil capital and details of postclassic states and movements which are not as securely known as the tone of the text implies. If it is to be added here then it would be preferable IMO to identify also the sources/corroborating information.--cjllw | TALK 05:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
