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Proposed deletion of List of closed railway stations in South Africa

The article List of closed railway stations in South Africa has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

* Incorrect article title. The title states stations, but the content deals with lines.

• Wikipedia:Notability - Few of these lines are notable, those that are will be covered in other articles such as the Avontuur Railway and the Alfred County Railway
• The only main namespace link to this article is from a redirect page. There are no link to that redirect page
• Content is unreferenced and (except possibly for the few lines that might be notable) finding references will be extremely difficult.
• The article contains very little information of encyclopedic value

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. NJR_ZA (talk) 13:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

SAST - thanks

Gosh! That was quick! Nice one, thank you for picking up so fast/well. Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:33, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Tabling List of South African locomotive classes

I have some doubts about including the "Disposition" and "Notes" columns in the table. This can get out of hand with several owners owning items from the same class, eg Rovos, Reefsteamers, FOTR, Atlantic Steam, Sandstone, the Welsh RR, museums, plinthed in towns, etc. In my opinion that kind of info should rather be worked into the text of the individual items and the table should basically just be a list of links. I suggest we stick with "locomotive and series" (where applicable), "wheel arrangement", and "builder" for the table.

One should rethink the "sortable" on the Class column too.

Regards André Kritzinger 21:53, 21 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre Kritzinger (talk • contribs)

OpenStreetMap

Packtpub is a print on demand vanity press and you have placed a direct purchase link on the page. This is not acceptable. If there is another publisher you have in mind, please provide the reference. The fact that you "own a copy", does not make it any less a vanity press. Kuru (talk) 15:38, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Beyond nonsense. "Print on demand" and "vanity press" are not the same. --84.92.81.68 (talk) 15:41, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

You're absolutely correct; the mistake was mine. Kuru (talk) 15:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 22:52, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 17:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Inviting you to WikiAfrica Incubator!

Hey Firefishy,

WikiAfrica invites you to support the Africa Incubator

WikiAfrica is pleased to invite you as a self-declared African Wikipedian to evaluate the Africa Incubator. WikiAfrica has created the Africa Incubator to support and assist new authors, as they create their first articles and learn the ins and outs of contributing to Wikipedia.

The Africa Incubator is a ‘soft landing’ for new authors to develop articles that relate to Africa. It assists them in becoming compliant and knowledgeable of Wikipedia principles and rules. Based within the Wikipedia framework, the Africa Incubator is fully interactive and enables feedback, assistance and forums.

This is where we need your help! For the Africa Incubator to be successful, it needs the intervention, interaction and experience of Incubator Mentors. We are looking for a pool of active experienced Wikipedians to consistently participate in ’owning’ the Africa Incubator. Incubator Mentors will assist new comers through the editing process. They will also help test and expand the Africa Incubator, and will play a vital role in encouraging newcomers to be Wikipedians for life

Please visit WikiAfrica Incubator to give us your honest feedback and evaluation. WikiAfrica is a ground-breaking project that is designed to Africanise Wikipedia by generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. Find out more about this project here WikiAfrica. To get involved, contact Francis [wikipedian@wikiafrica.net] Twitter: twitter.com/#!/wikiafrica Facebook: www.facebook.com/WikiAfrica

--Awinda 11:30, 6 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awinda (talk • contribs)

Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa

Dear WikiProject South Africa Wikipedians

This is an urgent call from Wikimedia South Africa. We are currently working hard on the South African side of the exciting international photographic competition, Wiki Loves Monuments [1]. We have been planning to make this national competition really take off, but to do so, we need your help! The competition starts on the 1st September, and we need your help now! If you are interested in being part of or can help the Wiki Loves Monuments national organising team, then please join here [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_South_Africa]. If you have limited time, but want to help out at an upload marathon at a heritage site near you, please then contact either Lourie [louriepieterse@yahoo.com] or Isla [islahf@africacentre.net]. We look forward to hearing from you!"

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Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

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I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

If you are not interested in applying, I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

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Nearmap Australian aerial photography service no longer publicly accessible.

As a non-registered user I can't edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate

I notice you were the person who originally added the then new Nearmap service 3 years ago; could you remove it now that it is no longer available?

Graham W.

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Zuma's residence at Nkandla

Hi, did you get any response with this request? Thanks, Zaian (talk) 12:52, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The author of the photo responded to say Wikipedia may use the image. I will ask him again to set the license on the http://www.panoramio.com/photo/84617082 photo. --Firefishy (talk) 00:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:21, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Women in Red World Contest

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Wikimania scholarship application for SA and SADC

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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

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What a hostile place for contribution. -- Firefishy (talk) Firefishy (talk) 17:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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