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Since this isn't your native language, I'd suggest "unowning" this sentence, leaving it free for a native speaker to adopt. This way we can all be confident that it's a good sentence.
The Tatoeba Project asks that you only adopt sentences in your native language.
"... adopt any "orphan" sentence you see in your native language, ... "
The Tatoeba Project has this policy, I think, so that when a native speaker reads a sentence that is good, he or she can adopt it.
This let's everybody know it's a good sentence.
The problem with a non-native speaker adopting a sentence is that it is not really a trustworthy "stamp of approval." The sentence may be OK, but then again, it may not be, so the ownership of the sentence doesn't help at all. In other words, it can only be trusted as much as an unadopted sentence.
When a non-native speaker adopts a sentence it hurts the project, since it prevents a native speaker from adopting the sentence.
We can't always expect a native speaker who is taking the time to proofread sentences to come back and read each sentence a second time some time in the future.
We should leave the sentence unadopted, so any native speaker reading the sentence can immediately adopt it.
> Even if you don't agree with the policies of the Tatoeba Project, I think you should follow them.
Well, I'll be breaking this rule until I don't see there is a reliable intend to have these sentences adopted, as I've told you multiple times.
If someone, besides you, thinks I'm being harmful to the project, I'll read all your complains via PM. However, please keep me from reading your same complain over and over again.
I just can't think of a better way to keep unexperimented non-native users to deliberately spoil orphan sentences.
>I thought it was bad practice to write a non-native sentence and *not* release it.
It's not a Tatoeba Project policy to do that, but I do.
It would be cool if the Tatoeba Project had some way to have native speakers "approve" a sentence created by a non-native speaker, other than the OK tag.
I'm not sure what a good word for an "approve" button would be, but I mean something like the following.
The native speaker would click a button similar to the current "adopt" button.
This would put that native speaker's username somewhere as a "stamp of approval." (Perhaps "approved by: USERNAME)
Perhaps, at this point, the sentence could be "locked" so even the owner could not make changes.
Or, if the owner made changes to have this "stamp of approval" automatically removed.
Perhaps if there were a place in a user's profile to enter his or her native language, then it would be possibly to show the "approve" button only on pages where the sentence was in that user's native language. This would prevent accidental "approvals."
If such a thing were possible, then limiting this to "advanced contributors" or above would be a good idea, perhaps.
@Vortarulo:
In these cases it's no use to tag them @nnc. It is just as if you were to tag all Japanese orphan sentences (of which there are, by the way, more than 120000), or all my Japanese sentences (2863 adopted, 341 written by myself)
I think CK also wrote something about it and then removed it.
The Tatoeba Project asks that you only adopt sentences in your native language.
"... adopt any "orphan" sentence you see in your native language, ... "
Source:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/activiti..._sentences/eng
(See the right side of the page.)
http://tatoeba.org/deu/activiti..._sentences/jpn
Even if you don't agree with the policies of the Tatoeba Project, I think you should follow them.
This let's everybody know it's a good sentence.
The problem with a non-native speaker adopting a sentence is that it is not really a trustworthy "stamp of approval." The sentence may be OK, but then again, it may not be, so the ownership of the sentence doesn't help at all. In other words, it can only be trusted as much as an unadopted sentence.
When a non-native speaker adopts a sentence it hurts the project, since it prevents a native speaker from adopting the sentence.
We can't always expect a native speaker who is taking the time to proofread sentences to come back and read each sentence a second time some time in the future.
We should leave the sentence unadopted, so any native speaker reading the sentence can immediately adopt it.
I've added this to my temporary FAQ page here for future reference.
http://bit.ly/tatoebafaq#faq206
I missunderstood. I thought it was bad practice to write a non-native sentence and *not* release it.
Well, I'll be breaking this rule until I don't see there is a reliable intend to have these sentences adopted, as I've told you multiple times.
If someone, besides you, thinks I'm being harmful to the project, I'll read all your complains via PM. However, please keep me from reading your same complain over and over again.
I just can't think of a better way to keep unexperimented non-native users to deliberately spoil orphan sentences.
It's not a Tatoeba Project policy to do that, but I do.
It would be cool if the Tatoeba Project had some way to have native speakers "approve" a sentence created by a non-native speaker, other than the OK tag.
I'm not sure what a good word for an "approve" button would be, but I mean something like the following.
The native speaker would click a button similar to the current "adopt" button.
This would put that native speaker's username somewhere as a "stamp of approval." (Perhaps "approved by: USERNAME)
Perhaps, at this point, the sentence could be "locked" so even the owner could not make changes.
Or, if the owner made changes to have this "stamp of approval" automatically removed.
Perhaps if there were a place in a user's profile to enter his or her native language, then it would be possibly to show the "approve" button only on pages where the sentence was in that user's native language. This would prevent accidental "approvals."
If such a thing were possible, then limiting this to "advanced contributors" or above would be a good idea, perhaps.
In these cases it's no use to tag them @nnc. It is just as if you were to tag all Japanese orphan sentences (of which there are, by the way, more than 120000), or all my Japanese sentences (2863 adopted, 341 written by myself)
I think CK also wrote something about it and then removed it.
It sounds like you haven't yet acknowledge this:
http://tatoeba.org/deu/wall/sho...#message_15345
I actually expect that will become the state of things in the short term.