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Is there a way to mark old translations as still accurate?

I’ve run into this problem a bunch of times. I’m updating a translation and there was only a change in punctuation, orthography, or something else minor that doesn’t affect the translation. Then the system won’t accept it as a completed translation until I change something about an already fine translation. It also won’t accept changing something and then changing it back as it’s smart enough to notice that that’s just reverting to an earlier revision. It’s especially annoying for titles that don’t leave a lot of choice for variation without making it weird. Am I missing an option to mark such translations as completed or is there really no way other than changing the translation?

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Great question, I'll let our Translation experts answer this one. @claire17 or @sandrahiller?

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Hello Sebastian!

Thanks for the question. Unfortunately there is currently no way to mark an old guide translation as still accurate. The only way to cheat the system is making a small invisible change, like adding a second space somewhere. So the system will notice you've updated the translation but will also "correct" the second space and show only one ;-)

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@sedorr I know it's been a while, and we still do not have a different solution for guides. However, I wanted to make sure that a feature like the one you requested does exist for wiki translations in the meantime. We've described it here: https://about.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Ma....

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