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French to English translations

All links are permalinks. You can find the current revision of the articles from the permalinks but they must have differed significantly from the french Wikipedia original by the time you access them - citations and verifications! Thanks.

• Science and Engineering
  • École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement, Ense3. This is a competitive engineering school in France. Reference: original french article^[1]; valid and faithful as at today,19 December 2013. Emekadavid (talk) 18:12, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    
  • Xenon monochloride. An exciplex molecule that has wide application in laser technology. Reference: original french article^[2]; valid and faithful as at today, 19 January, 2014. Emekadavid (talk) 18:12, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bureau_de_Recherches_Géologiques_et_Minières. French original link.^[3] Emekadavid (talk) 06:12, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Society and Culture
  • Médecins de nuit. A french medical TV series that highlights the social milieu of the late 70's in suburban Paris. Reference: original french article^[4]; valid and faithful as at today, 19 January, 2014. Emekadavid (talk) 18:12, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

You have a response to:

• locking an article for translation for a limited time Archive 166 Emekadavid (talk) 09:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• After translating an article, what next

• Making request for proofreading Archive 171.
  

• what do this markup mean. Answer: Consult the specific Wikiprojects. Emekadavid (talk)

• Saving two copies of the same article

• Linking to an article in the french wikipedia Archive 175
• Looking for the author of an article

I've done quick formatting fixes and don't know when I will have time for copyedit (better not count on me). The article needs trimming of excessive details and rephrasing of unencyclopedic tone (like "we consider", "we will see later", etc.). The original is written as a review article for a scientific journal rather than an encyclopedic entry. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 13:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am going through your fixes and do appreciate them. Thanks a million. I will go through the highlighted weak areas myself. Thanks.Emekadavid (talk) 13:46, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Confidence interval: for this I am assuming that there is a certain confidence that the value falls in the range. Take a look at Confidence interval and you will see this sentence: "In applied practice, confidence intervals are typically stated at the 95% confidence level." so that is what I suspect the sources were saying, without me consulting them. Usually the % could be assumed and the numbers presented as x±y instead. This will cut down verbosity. French is already pretty verbose, so this translation carries the style to English. This means it can be much more compact. I may not have changed all those 5% yet though. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:51, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am quite sure that 5% is wrong. But perhaps we do not need to say it as it would be the expected confidence anyway. It could be a matter of usage in French. For example in English we would give a percentage discount (20% off) but in Chinese the equivalent is the parts per ten of the original price (8 parts). I have not studied statistics in French though. Materialscientist might be able to convince you about using 95%. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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