Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osteosynthesis

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The result was redirect to Internal fixation. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:35, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Osteosynthesis[edit]

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I'm pretty sure this is a mistranslation of the German 'osteosynthese'. (e.g. Google "Osteosynthesis" and all the top results are from Germanophone sites or authors.) The correct translation is internal fixation (though it can also include reduction). Slightly off-topic, but I'm coming across of lot of life sciences material which looks like it's been badly translated from the German lately. Is there a way of encouraging people not to do this? JA Translator (talk) 14:46, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 15:02, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to internal fixation. Duplicate topic. On your second point, I'm not sure of a good way to discourage bad translations, but when I come across duplicate articles and one clearly in inferior, I often just "boldly" redirect. Natureium (talk) 15:54, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - this seems to be a literal translation gone awry; topic already has an article under its commonly used name. - If anything, we can probably expect an uptick of such instances in the future, as WMF has just enabled Google Translate in the content translation tool. Hooray. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:26, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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