User talk:217.235.233.231

Hello. A page you recently created was outside of Meta's scope and has been deleted or will be deleted soon. In future, please remember that Meta exists for the documentation of the Wikimedia projects and that off-topic material is not accepted here. Thanks for your understanding. - Ottava Rima (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Your essay, Sei kein Idiot, does not appear to be within meta's policies. Was this your own or did you translate it from somewhere else? Ottava Rima (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Ottava

The essay is not my own work, it's a translation of Don't be a dick, of which currently 6 translations exist; I translated it into German. The original essay and all of it's translations seem to be inside of Meta's scope, no? Honestly, I don't know, but it's there and it is linked by several wikipedias and has, obviously, not been deleted. I haven't linked it to the essay, yet, because it had still been completely unformatted and I hadn't checked coherence and language, which I planned to do today. I assume, I should have given the edit summary in English and not in German.

Looking forward to hearing from you. 217.235.233.231 07:18, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I gotta say, meta's deletion process is extremely quick. Deletion in less than half a day from creation. ;D 217.235.233.231 07:20, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

We were trying to translate it and we couldn't come up with a comparative. If you want to repost the essay, put {{Template:Don't be a dick/lang}}{{essay|specifiedcategory=Essays related to Wikipedia}}__NOTOC__ at the top of the page so we can see it as a translation. That would make it known that it is not just some person complaining about jerks but is a translation of an official Wikipedia complaining about jerks. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 13:47, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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