User talk:Boershistory

Article: Free Burghers

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:08, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Free Burghers (April 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Burgher (Boer republics). Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This really should be expanded on the existing Burgher article.

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Boershistory! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. Freeburghers and burghers are not at all the same group or from the same historical period. The freeburghers of the Cape are the origins of the Cape dwelling Dutch (later Afrikaans speakers). Only *some* of those went north to settle the Boer Republics and are referred to as Voortrekkers and later as Boers. During the Second Boer War many of those Dutch/Afrikaans speakers of the Cape fought on the British side (in fact by the end of the war more Dutch/Afrikaans speakers were fighting for the British than the Boers - this is one of the many reasons why South African War is increasingly being used in place of Boer War). Afrikaner nationalism in the 20th century created the concept of 'Afrikaner' to unify what is in fact two separate, though closely related, groups of people. And as separate groups and separate time periods are involved they ought to have separate pages. Francoisdjvr (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Free Burghers has been accepted

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:33, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Bhistory 18:54, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Afrikaans into Boer. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:44, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa, thank you for your mentoring, sorry to only reply now. Since your post I have applied this to all edits. BHistory (talk) 14:29, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Signature June 2019

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Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide a link to your userpage when you sign comments. Between that and changing how your name is factored in your signature, it makes it confusing to ascertain what edits and comments at talk belong to you. Simonm223 (talk) 13:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will work on my housekeepingBhistory 15:47, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Please review Wikipedia:Signatures more carefully, since this is still clearly a problem. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 07:04, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, all fixed up thanks BHistory 07:44, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's better, however, your signature still doesn't contain a link to your talk page, which is standard and convenient for others. Per WP:SIG#CustomSig: A customised signature should make it easy to identify the username, to visit the user's talk-page, and preferably user page.

While you can use a piped link for your signature if you want, you can also just change your username. User:BHistory appears to be available. Please see Wikipedia:Changing username if this interests you.

Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 07:59, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I added the (talk) part to the signature, thanks for the tip on changing the username. BHistory (talk) 14:15, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your signature above links to User talk:Example. While this is obviously not impersonation, it is still completely inappropriate to link to the wrong talk page. It must link to this talk page (User talk:Boershistory).

Please fix this as soon as possible. Use Help:Show preview to make sure it links to the proper page. If you cannot figure out how to do this, please ask at Wikipedia:Help desk by briefly explaining the problem. Grayfell (talk) 22:10, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi its fixed thanks. BHistory (talk) 06:07, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Statue of MT Steyn has been accepted

Statue of MT Steyn, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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DGG ( talk ) 10:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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