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Welcome!

Hello, Gidzz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mzansi Acccount

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Just wanted to let you knwo that if you make a spelling error like that you can either tag it with Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#General criteria, item 7 or just ask any Wikipedia:Administrators to do it. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Cyanide in the Beefcake

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I have nominated Cyanide in the Beefcake, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyanide in the Beefcake. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. CultureDrone (talk) 12:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 14:32, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Africa question

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Hi Gidzz. Just saw your question on the SA project page – which I don't monitor closely; which seems to sadly be the case with most South African editors. I'm not at all familiar with the Wikipedia policies on albums or music, but I've nominated a fair number of articles for speedy deletion myself. One thing that is guaranteed to keep me from doing so is two or more solid references. That can be tough, but in the case of Cyanide in the Beefcake it is doable. A Google news search (with the "all dates" option selected) brings up a couple of good ones. I'll add them to the article forthwith, and that should establish its notability beyond any doubt. So, short answer to your question: find and cite good sources and you won't have to defend entries from deletion. Hope that helps. 9Nak (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:SA General Election National Ballot.pdf listed for deletion

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An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:SA General Election National Ballot.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. J Milburn (talk) 11:40, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cut and paste move

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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Rund um den Henninger-Turm a different title by copying its content and pasting it into Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Severo^TC 14:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject South Africa

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I have recently overhauled WikiProject South Africa with the following:

Improving collaboration of participants by adding an Open tasks section with specific as well as common tasks
- Added link to the CatScan tool to find articles needing cleanup, referencing and expanding
- Added common tasks that should be performed on Portal:South Africa
- Added information on how to add Geographical coordinates
- Added articles missing Images
- Added assessment information
Improving the layout to make access to information easier
Added simple "How can I help?" instructions for new project members
Extended the Resources section to assist participants in finding South Africa related information
Added bot generated Article alerts
Added a bot generated Cleanup listing
Added more information on template usage
Added a section on language usage
Improved the categories section with trees for category:South Africa Wikipedia administration and category:South Africa
Added link to Wikipedia Books
Marked inactive sections of the project as inactive

Comments, constructive criticism and suggestions for improving it further are welcome --NJR_ZA (talk) 07:24, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stellenbosch to bid for Wikimania 2012!

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Hi Gidzz!

The nascent South African Wikimedia chapter has decided to bid to host Wikimania in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2012. This would be the first Wikimania in South Africa, and would be a great advertisement for our country. Please take a look at meta:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch. If you can add to the discussion, please do. If you feel that you are able to do anything to help, please join the Wikimedia South Africa mailing list and let us know. Even simple messages of support are valued!

Best regards,

David Richfield

Inviting you to WikiAfrica Incubator!

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Hey Gidzz,

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 11:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awinda (talk • contribs)

Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa

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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!"

Kind regards, Lourie

Sent by Lucia Bot in 13:59, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

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Hello,

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/

Best regards, Islahaddow

(This message was sent using Lucia Bot at 22:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Proposed deletion of Ge-trans-for-meer

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The article Ge-trans-for-meer has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence that this is notable.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Stefan2 (talk) 16:37, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]