As of the last couple of years, most Internet browsers contain universal translators that are of sufficient quality to make non-English content a non-issue.
Given this, I’m not sure that there’s still much value in the ban on links to foreign-language materials?
I strongly support the translation rule. Most AI translations stink. The point of the writing may be lost. The fine, and sometimes crucial, details will certainly be lost.
There’s never been a ban on links to foreign-language materials. What you got smacked down for was a post where, first of all, the entire content of the post was in a foreign language, and second of all, where none of the content was your own.
I’m one of the ones who flagged the post in question which you made in the Caligula thread.
I’m using Firefox, and it did not translate either the previews your links generated in your post, nor the actual sites once I followed the links, out of French. I just checked, using Chrome, and got the same (non-translated) results.
posting untranslated in languages other than English, are both prohibited here.
If that’s not true then feel free to ignore and close the thread. I misunderstood your mod comment.
I just worked to get it back in the rules. It fell out by mistake and it is very valuable.
This is a moderated board and we can’t moderate non-English.
I very strongly opposed this.
Right click and choose “Translate to English”.
To be clear, I had no idea that Chrome could do this. (Firefox does not, or at least, buries the tool somewhere else, just FYI).
Anywhere.
If you right-click the link box Sage_Rat posted a drop-down menu will appear that should have a translate option. I use Firefox preferentially and it worked for me.
But I’d still rather see an English-language link myself as not only are the AI translations sometimes somewhat rough, but the translate program can also sometimes break formatting in a wiki link in a way that is just a little annoying to parse.
I’ve asked for the this thread to be closed as I seem to have read too much into the mod comment but, in general, I’d say that there’s now enough content on the non-English pages of the Wikipedia and certain parts of the non-English internet, plus the level of translation has gotten good enough, that it’s very worthwhile to get into the habit of checking for location-specific information in the local language.
If nothing else, thank you for introducing me to the translation features in Firefox and Chrome. 
I’m using Firefox in Windows 11. I got the translate to English option when I clicked on the title links in those two quotes, but not when I clicked on the post contents.
It worked in Edge, however.
Same here; I found the translation tool in Firefox in the main browser “hamburger” (three horizontal line) menu in the upper right hand corner.
As requested, closed.