[not needed anymore- removed by CK]

Salut
J'ai déjà signalé la phrase « Tu pars sous ton nez. » ( que je trouve incohérente).
Mais je m'y suis arrêté, sans lire les phrases restantes.

The most useful thing you can do if you see bad sentences is to write comments on them. This accomplishes multiple things:

(1) It allows the author, or a corpus maintainer, to fix the sentence.
(2) It allows people to determine from the comments left on the author's sentences whether their sentences can be trusted in general.

I like to write comments in a form that indicates the current contents and the suggested rewording. This allows people to see easily whether the comment is still valid. For example:

My dog have fleas. -> My dog has fleas.

Such comments are quick and easy to write, especially with the use of the "copy sentence" button at the right of each sentence. Advanced contributors should also add the "@change" tag so that the sentence will be seen when corpus maintainers review all the sentences with that tag.

Of course, you don't have to go through all of a contributor's sentences. But if you see 10 bad sentences and write comments on them, someone who looks at the comments on that contributor's sentences will see the pattern.

The other piece of this approach, naturally, is that when you choose sentences to translate by an owner you are not already familiar with, you should look at the comments left on their sentences to see whether there are a lot of complaints on them.

If you leave comments on sentences, you give people a concrete basis for deciding not to translate sentences from that contributor (or for administrators to take some other action, though that is less likely). The comments will also persist and be searchable when someone checks the contributor's profile, whereas Wall messages eventually drop off the front page and become hard to find.

Qu’est un « utilisateur dans le rouge » ?

Il faut contacter Pfirsichbaeumchen.

https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/art...us-maintainers

You're suggesting that we take the easy way. But in this case, I don't think the easy way is the best way.

I, personally, do not mind if someone takes the liberty to delete some of these sentences because I, personally, do not care about them. But by principle, I would have zero arguments to defend us on why we have deleted them. The deletions would be a personal, subjective choice.

Yes, it takes more effort to deal with bad sentences that have been linked, rather than deleting them before they get to be linked. But it can be a worthwhile effort:

1) We get to practice improving sentences. Native speakers could learn things about their own language, or sharpen their literary skills, by doing this exercise.
2) We can explain to those who added the translations about why it was a bad sentence and maybe they can learn something out of it and will choose more wisely their next sentences to translate.
3) It can be an eye-opener on what really is a good or bad sentence.

@CK
Have you thought about Francophones (non-French) whose French was (and still is) their working language throughout their working life (and some of whom speak French better than their mother tongue and sometimes better than some real French speakers)? Do you consider them as native speakers?
Friendly yours. AmarMecheri