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Jimeloyo Ji

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I am delighted to discover that you are a College old boy - given your knowledge of fagging, I suspected as much. I don't find the mention of fagging to be offensive at all - as you say, it is a special - and rather unique - aspect of College life. The ISBN code for Jimeloyo-Ji is not included in the book itself, but I can easily post a copy to you, as we have some extra copies lying around. Let me know. I have lots of stuff on Skonk - can I suggest that I fax through photo copies? If so, what is your fax number? My scanner is out of action at the moment. Cheers, Matthew

Maritzburg College

Hi Ssteedman, thanks for your comments about Maritzburg College. I am the archivist at the school - as well as being a past pupil, current master, President of the Old Boys' Association etc. Alas, as you can see, I am not the most objective person when it comes to the place.

My claims about the sporting prowess of the school are based on discussions that I have had with friends from other schools, and my reading of numrrous sports-related articles etc over the years. I can certainly confirm that we have produced 180 internationals - their names are inscribed in our clubhouse - which, I gather, is slightly more than KES, and still a fair bit more than schools like Grey College, Grey High and Jeppe. In about 1994 the book "Historic Schools of SA" was brought out (I have a copy at home), and, at the time, we were ahead of the pack, with about 120 internationals.

The figures regarding the no. of sports teams churned out on Saturday afternoons come from my personal knowledge.

I note that you have deleted my claim that the school may possibly be the strongest sporting school in the country. My claim was based on (1) the findings of the website www.dreammerchants.com, which rates SA schools at rugby, cricket and hockey, and had Maritzburg College at no 1 in 2004 and no 2 in 2005, and (2) our no. of international caps.

I note that you state that my initial attempt gave the entry the feeling of a "promotional pamphlet or prospectus" - I cannot doubt that I am biased, so I guess I have to accept that you are right! However, I must point out that I did not insert such claims as College is the "strongest sporting school in the province" (despite the fact that I happen to agree with this assertion), and I do try and mix a bit of fact with my bias.

BTW, I would be interested to know where the stuff on fagging came from. Was it you? It is an interesting insertion, because it really is a non-issue here at the school. Even in its present format, the article reads as if Maritzburg College has a hint of Dachau about it, which is far from the truth. Of the many things that I might be inclined to write about, fagging would not be one of them. But it adds a certain sense of a bygone age to the place, which I anyway like.

In any event, thank you for your comments - I have greatly enjoyed reading your work. Matthew Marwick, KZN (AKA Jimeloyo Ji)

Sorry if it seems that my edits are POV. Please note however that Wikipedia is based on GNU Free Documentation Licence, which means that the articles are not copyrighted in the usual sense of that word; thus, instead of deleting articles or large portions of them and asking for a complete rewrite, one could edit them somewhat, delete the exact words which one feels are POV rather than entire portion of text. As probably no one is able to be completely neutral on every subject, the only way to achieve neutrality is for two or more prople representing different opinions to be slightly editing the article in turns until the article more or less is acceptable to all sides. Alcatel 11:31, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job on Rainbow Nation. Wizzy…☎ 11:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rainbow Nation

thanks a lot for a great article. i am more into norwegian stuff, but the reason for my concern was that i was looking for the term in a school project, and the obvious biased writings made me react. positive for me is that it also got me into wikipedia in the first plase

DEAR SSTEEDMAN i'm writing up a lecture on queer recognition in SA and was pleased to see the way in which the rainbow flag was included. may i ask if you were the author and if you inserterd this part of the text later on, which was not clear to me originally. if yes, do you know of other similar interpretations that i can trace?

it would be a great help.

thanks

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Replied there. JackyR 15:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

South African Bush Telegraph

Hi Ssteedman, if you have not yet done so, we could sure use your input on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dewet. Thanks! --Jcw69 17:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your vote, this is going to be a close one Dewet is siting on 67.9% and he needs over 75% --Jcw69 12:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm sorry, I must have accidentally skipped over your username when I went through the list. I will approve you right now. Prodego ^talk 22:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your vote please

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Source for honeyguides and ratels

Hi. I notice you added a citeneeded tag to a paragraph I wrote at Ratel:

Some sources say that a bird, the honeyguide, has a habit of leading ratels and other large mammals to bees' nests. When a ratel breaks into the nest, the birds take their share too. Other sources say that honeyguides are only known to guide humans; see Greater Honeyguide.

I meant that the reference to the Greater Honeyguide article would be the source. If you look there, you'll see correctly sourced (I hope!) quotations on both sides of the controversy. Do you feel that these should be repeated at Ratel?

By the way, is the pronunciation with "a" as in "father" the only one in S. A.? American and British dictionaries prefer it but give "a" as in "fate" as a variant, so maybe that should be listed too. —JerryFriedman 23:22, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maliaka

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You are going to have to come up with some references for your your paragraph about Malema, the Hawks investigation, etcetera. I marked three places where citations are needed, there may be more. pietopper (talk) 20:29, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you

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Marikana miner strike

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