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Guidelines for Corpus Maintainers

NOTE: This is a page in progress and doesn't yet have all the guidelines.

Deleting sentences added by mistake

  • If the contributor of the sentence requests that it be deleted, then delete it right way.

  • If another member requests the deletion and gives a good reason for the deletion, wait 2 weeks to give the contributor to respond, and also to give other members a chance to leave comments.

Deleting sentences added as spam

  • If it's obvious spam, just delete it right away.

Deleting sentences that aren't compatible with our CC-By license.

  • copyrighted sentences

    • Leave a comment first to allow the contributor or other members to respond.

  • series of sentences pairs copied from other websites.

    • Even if the items look like commonly-used, everyday expressions, translated pairs, especially all from the same website, can be considered copyrighted.
    • We occasionally have members who aren't aware of this.
    • The first thing to do is to leave a comment telling the member this.
    • ? Write to team@tatoeba.org and suggest that certain sentences be set to "red."

Correcting sentences by members with accounts that have been set to "inactive"

  • If you are a native speaker of the language of the sentence that needs a change, you may just go ahead and make the change. If not, then you should leave a comment.
    • Some members who have "misbehaved" have had their accounts set to "inactive" by the admin.
    • Other members have asked to have their accounts deleted and have been set to "inactive."

Deleting bad tags

  • If it obvious a wrong tag, and you're absolutely sure it's wrong, you may delete it.

  • It's a good idea to leave a comment first in cases where you think some members may object to the tag's deletion, and then give members 2 weeks to comment before you delete the tag

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