Template talk:Babel box

Typo

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"dependant" => "dependent" Van der Hoorn (talk) 15:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Done ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 17:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Language

{{edit protected}} Please change {{#language:{{{1|?}}}}} to {{#language:{{{1|?}}}}|en}}. As the template currently works {{babel box|ar|level=2}} becomes

ar-2	This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of العربية.

Babel box Babel box

which is not helpful at all. Liam987 (talk) 11:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this tomorrow. — Gopher65_talk 00:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

• Done and above may look a mess to take this page out of categories. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:33, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

act --> add

{{editprotected}} The line of all caps on this page talks about "a simple way to act babel to a user page." It should actually use the word "add," not "act." --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 07:18, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

• Done, and I also changed to lowercase. BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 20:54, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Language level listing orders

Actually, the right way with the language level was:

• 1 - Basic
• 2 - Intermediate
• 3 - Advanced
• 4 - Near-Native & Expert
• 5 - Professional
• N - Native

It's possible to correct it for mis-matching for 5 between 4 and N. --Allen ^talk 05:44, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

I've never found the 5 level particularly useful. The only meaningful difference between "expert" and "professional" is, in my experience, knowing what it's like to grade students' work, and I suspect that confers much the same breadth of perspective regardless of what one taught professionally, so ought to be addressed by a separate userbox.

I agree it's a mistake to imagine professionals know better than native speakers. Not that all native speakers are equally fluent (I've heard of someone at (university omitted), years ago, of whom it was said that he knew nine languages, none of them well). --Pi zero (talk) 11:21, 9 August 2014 (UTC)