User talk:Lectert
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[edit] Welcome
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[edit] Joan of Arc
Actually could you compare your translation against the current article version? As you'll see from my talk page and User:Durova/Complex vandalism at Joan of Arc, the English Wikipedia article was corrupted by a persistent vandal at the time when you translated it.
BTW was it also you who Photoshopped the map of France into Chinese? Great work! I located that image (which had been mislabelled with the wrong year) at the Hundred Years' War article and brought it over to Joan of Arc - several other language versions have borrowed it since then. Most of them use the original image, but the French Wikipedia made one interesting POV change in altering the placement of the word France. You might find it illuminating.
Thanks again for your hard work. I've done a little bit of translating myself - nothing on the scale of translating a featured article, but just enough to appreciate your dedication. When I saw it featured in Chinese I did wonder how much other biographical material about her is available to the average Chinese speaker. I know that bestselling books in English often get wide transaltion. Is the same true for this subject? Regards, DurovaCharge! 23:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
