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Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
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Questions that request beyond a simple translation

I came across a few questions where the asker understands the meaning of a Chinese idiom perfectly, but requested for a similar English idiom instead of just seeking for the translation. … This may leave behind many questions with unaccepted answers and also generate a steady stream of low quality answers by people who thought it as a simple translation problem. …
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Why did a group of our prominent users vote to close this translation question?

As we are not a translation service and this site is for people to learn the Chinese language, not the English language, it is clearly a violation of the usage. …
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Policy refinement for questions related to translation

We do not forbid translation requests but note that this is not a translation service, so we will close any translation request that does not show research effort. … Why we can not ask questions about “translation” here? Policy on translation-like questions? Why do we have a [translation] tag? …
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