I am, so to speak, a "new" user of this site. Or more precise, my account has some years, but I just began to use it to post things, and my first posts are about a comic...

https://e621.net/posts/2745944

My first posts have not been approved yet, but then there is a user that already is asking for a translation.

Browsing the forum for some time, I got the impression (just the impression) that the translation have not to be provided necessarily by the poster himself, but by some other users that "volunteer" to that and do so as they wish or saw fit.

This forum has a lot of information about what or how to post things... only I have not been able to find those particular rules yet by myself.

Besides, I suppose that there is some kind of application that you use to make those "floating transparent translation boxes" that I have seen in some post.

So, summarizing and being going more to the point:

1.) Do I have to provide myself a translation before the 30 day term for the approval / not approval?

2.) If so, I will be thankful to know how... or what proceeds.

Translations can be added to basically any post at any time. Technically, an Admins can block a post from receiving any translations (notelocked:true), but this is rarely used. Adding translations requires the use of a computer mouse, so it's not possible on Mobile. Here's how you do it:
1. Go to the post
2. Click "Add note" on the left sidebar (or alternatively, just press n)
3. Click one corner of the text that you want to translate, drag to the opposite corner, and release. This will create a pop-up rectangle known as a "note".
4. You can use your mouse to move the note or adjust its size, if needed
5. Mouse over the note and click the "click to edit" pop-up
6. Fill out the "edit note" box with your translation and press Save.
7. When you're done, you can click the "Mark as Translated" button under the post to add the translated tag.

On the sidebar left of the image, as you scroll down you'll encounter a section headered "Options". One of the options is to add a note--This used to preplace a box, but now it lets you drag new boxes into place. Don't worry if you realize you've put it into the wrong place, you can move and resize it, just make sure to hit save once you've changed it in any way.

As you hover over a box, a popup shows up just under it. Click that box for an editor window to show up, and you can type in your translations, grammar corrections, etc. Just as resizing, make sure you hit save when you're done.

mexicanfurry said:
Do I have to provide myself a translation before the 30 day term for the approval / not approval?

Nope. If your post isn't in English, you can throw on the translation_request tag and hope somebody else gets to it--it helps if you know which language it is so that you can also tag spanish_text, japanese_text etc. Your upload looks like russian_text.
The translation isn't needed in those thirty days though, and a lot of posts can take much longer to get translated. It can easily take a week or two for some things to get approved, so just be patient.

Unfortunately, I am going to have to delete those.

As per the uploading guidelines:

We only accept an English translation and the original language, we will not host additional translations.

This is a Russian translation of the comic that was originally in English.
It also has some terrible compression artifacting, compared to the original version.

Edit: it's also a webcomic, although I can't find an original source that's hosting all the pages.
So, mirroring it all here becomes an even more dubious affair. See topic #26803 for a relevant discussion.

@CrocoGator and @Furrin Gok thank you very much for the help. Your posts really answered my question and I appreciate that.

=).

I will keep in mind your instructions if it presents for me the oportunity to post something with a text in a language different of English in the future.

You are very kind.

bitwolfy said:
Unfortunately, I am going to have to delete those.

As per the uploading guidelines:
This is a Russian translation of the comic that was originally in English.
It also has some terrible compression artifacting, compared to the original version.

Edit: it's also a webcomic, although I can't find an original source that's hosting all the pages.
So, mirroring it all here becomes an even more dubious affair. See topic #26803 for a relevant discussion.

OK, but let me explain the logic of my posts.

Of course that I SAW that there was a small fraction of the comic of dc_simpson already in e621, but my intention was to post the WHOLE comic (5 or 6 times larger that what is right now).

As a matter of fact, before posting what I was posting, I even went again to the Russian source, and saw that even there (I don't know why) the comic was gone.

Years before, I spent a lot of time looking in the Internet for that comic, unsuccesfuly. Honestly, this time I just made a little search. I don't know if the whole comic is still available somewhere (let's say FurAffinity). Although I really doubt it, given the last known attitude of the author about his/her own creation.

So maybe, I will have to appreciate that I will be one of the relatively few mortals that still can enjoy this classic work of furry.

Thanks.

mexicanfurry said: ...

Rather than trying to upload a Russian translation of the comic, it would be better to preserve the English originals. Versions in other languages should be kept only if there is literally no other option available. There are a number of comic pages on the site already, including the original versions of the ones you uploaded, that were deleted for being from a webcomic.

If you want this comic preserved, you should DMail NotMeNotYou about getting those english pages restored.
Their ruling on a similar issue supports that.

bitwolfy said:
Rather than trying to upload a Russian translation of the comic, it would be better to preserve the English originals. Versions in other languages should be kept only if there is literally no other option available. There are a number of comic pages on the site already, including the original versions of the ones you uploaded, that were deleted for being from a webcomic.

bitWolfy... we agree that the original version has precedence over any other version.

Yes, I posted pages that were a kind of repetition / reiteration of that already available in this site. I know that that could be considered somehow "disordered" or something, if someone takes some things, or rules, very, very seriously.

I understand that you are a very good programmer, that have contributed here with a number of applications and ideas. Being so, I would not be surprised if with your habilities, you would been able to find an site with the whole English version that I couln't find in the years that I have been looking for it.

If you want this comic preserved, you should DMail NotMeNotYou about getting those english pages restored. Their ruling on a similar issue supports that.

For what I have seen, "NotMeNotYou" is a very comprehensive and amiable person. I wish not bother him with this trivialities, really. I simply say to myself "this didn't worked out", and that's all.

The comic IS preserved - I have it. And if one day everythig is good and smooth, I will share it.

Really, I wish you a good day.

=).

PS.

(I hope that you and I could later have some good interchanges about yet another themes "off topic" that seems to interest us both).