# Where to suggest changes to the English strings?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280 "2016-02-28T08:46:09Z")
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### Author: ![RalfJung](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ralfjung/32/51654_2.png) [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)
#### Post date: [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280/1 "2016-02-28T08:46:09Z")

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I noticed a few places where I find the English “translation” confusing, or where it is inconsistent:

- In the user profile [https://meta.discourse.org/users/USER/preferences](https://meta.discourse.org/users/USER/preferences), many settings say something like “Notify me”, “send me a mail”, etc. - but the very last one says “Automatically unpin topics when you reach the bottom.”. For consistency, this should be “Automatically unpin topics when _I_ reach the bottom.”.
- Furthermore, for the description of a staged user, it is unclear to me whether “can only post via email in specific topics” means that in the other topics, the user can _not post at all_, or whether in the other topics, she can post normally through the web-interface, but not via e-mail. Also, how are these “specific” topics determined?

What is the procedure to suggest changes to these strings? It seems Transifex treats English as source language, so do I just make a pull request with a changed `{client,server}.en.yml`?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280/2 "2016-02-28T08:50:36Z")

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> [@RalfJung](#):
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> It seems Transifex treats English as source language, so do I just make a pull request with a changed `{client,server}.en.yml`?

Exactly, English is the source language and suggestions should be proposed via a PR.

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### Author: ![RalfJung](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ralfjung/32/51654_2.png) [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)
#### Post date: [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280/3 "2016-02-28T08:53:21Z")

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Okay, thanks; I will do that for the first item.

The second one is a question - since I don’t know what exactly the actual restrictions for staged users are, I cannot suggest a change yet 😉

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280/4 "2016-02-28T08:58:57Z")

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Staged users are user accounts created when an email is received. They only thing they can do is reply to the topic they created with an email. That’s it.

More context available here

> [@Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444):
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> Purpose We would like to set it up so Discourse can act as a private email support portal for a team. In this mode a single email address will be mapped to a category, all incoming mail will create new messages in that category that can be viewed by all the users with permission on the category. Users will be automatically provisioned as emails come in. Advantages over central email box Historically we have used a central email box for our team “support” this has proven to have quite a few draw…

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### Author: ![RalfJung](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ralfjung/32/51654_2.png) [@RalfJung](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RalfJung)
#### Post date: [28 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-suggest-changes-to-the-english-strings/40280/5 "2016-02-28T09:03:49Z")

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I see, thanks. So then maybe the description should at least be changed from `A staged user can only post via email in specific topics.` to `A staged user can only post via email, and only in specific topics.`. Or maybe `A staged user can only post via email, and only in his topics.`.

Personally, I was not aware of this feature (auto-creation of users based on incoming mail) at all, so maybe a reference to the docs or settings or whatever would also be warranted? There is only so much space, though.
