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Hello Gregorydavid, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!

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Thank you for saying Hi.. Please help me fix page Johann and Page Anton Rupert so that Johann on this page directs to existing page Johann Rupert Thank you Gregorydavid 18:33, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed that on the Anton Rupert page, in this example the trick is : [[Johann Rupert|Johann]] --Alf ^melmac 08:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, "hi" from me as well to another South African! Thanks for your supporting comments regarding this issue ... the Anton Rupert article really didn't seem the correct place for that particular debate/statement to me either. Regards, Elf-friend 12:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll assume you forgot the "please" in the "Could you fix and explain" part of your message ... otherwise it sounds awfully like an order ... and I don't take orders from anybody except my wife :-) ...

Anyway, when somebody (you?) put the redirect in the disambiguation page it seems to have ignored the rest of the page and made it just a redirect page ... I have deleted the redirect and just added Johann Rupert to the dab. list.

Regards, Elf-friend 09:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You changed the first sentence in the Pretoria article, without citing a source to back up your claim that the name changed. If you look at the Pretoria page, as well as the Tshwane page, you will see a detailed description of the name change process. When/if the change is approved, you can change the first sentence. 168.209.98.35 03:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Greg, I commend you for your enthusiasm about Wikipedia in general and you seem to be doing good work adding people to List of South Africans, but I don't understand why there are som redlinks because the list is supposed to be about South Africans with Wikipedia articles? Regards, Elf-friend 06:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Elf-friend, you and user janto have questioned my practice of including links / red links to non- existent pages. If I do in clude the link it shows up existing content immediately, and I can go and examine it, if it shows up red I will quite soon create the content. I think the links I create have the same status generally than those that exist elsewhere. Who is to judge or estimate the probability of content being provided for links or key words?

As I say I will take responsibility to revisit thos articles I work on so that un-finished strings are dealt with.. Regards, Gregorydavid 11:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article that I started on Elisabeth Eybers is actually quite old (see its history) ... you just spelled it incorrectly (Elizabeth) in the list ... which shows one of the problems with your approach, I think.

As to the list itself, its stated purpose is to list all the South Africans for whom articles already exist, so I would again kindly request that you refrain from adding names for whom there are not yet articles. But by all means go ahead and create a (separate) list of notable South Africans who do not have articles yet - I think you will find that separate "request for article" lists are commonly used in Wikipedia.

Kind Greetings, Elf-friend 14:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Greg, I certainly hope that myself and other Wikipedians have been patient with you, as one should certainly not bite newcomers :-). List of South Africans is certainly not for living South Africans only, otherwise I certainly wouldn't have added Mrs. Ples ;-). Kind Regards, Elf-friend 08:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Elf-friend, Sometimes I have to go back again and read carefully what was said, I see you said existing articles and not existing people for the List of South Africans. Did you see all the red links under South African Writers? See Paul Roos where someone has reverted. I now know about three persons with the name Paul Roos. What does it mean to "know how to Wiki"? Regards, Greg Gregorydavid 08:45, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know what that particular person meant by “knowing how to Wiki”, but I feel that whatever it is, he has probably not mastered it himself yet, - please see the message that I left on his talk page [1].

In the case of two or more persons sharing the same name, it is better to start a new article about him (or her), with a "differentiator" in brackets after the name, such as: Paul Roos (South Africa).

Regards, Elf-friend 07:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Greg; sorry for only typing this, but welcome to Wikipedia, also from a fellow South African. Good contributions so far, hope the Wikimania takes you too! dewet|™ 11:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problemo. And yeah, once the addiction sets in... ;) By the way, it's considered bad etiquette to edit user's pages directly -- messages to them should be put on their talk pages. But these are the small "rules of the game" that one learns as you go along... Regards, dewet|™ 14:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Howzit? I reverted this edit [2] on Cape of Good Hope - the sense of the text changed with your edit. I believe that Cape Agulhas is where the oceans meet ? Wizzy…☎ 09:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Please fix if you can. Regards, Greg Gregorydavid 11:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I put a request on Commander Keane's Talk page. This IP is probaby a proxy. Wizzy…☎ 11:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Username Gregorydavid Total edits 259 Image uploads 0 (0 cur, 0 old) Distinct pages edited 115 Edits/page (avg) 2.25 Deleted edits 0 (browse) First edit 2006-01-20 08:41:45 Edits by namespace Namespace Edits Articles 218 Talk 13 User 2 User talk 23 Project 1 Project talk 2 The end of contributions till unblocked.. Regards, Greg Gregorydavid 13:03, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gregorydavid! You recently put the article BBC into the category "24 hour news channels". I've reverted this change. The BBC article is about the organisation as a whole - and it is not a 24-hour news channel, it is a broadcaster. The article on BBC News 24, the BBC's 24-hour news channel, is already, correctly, in the category, so the BBC article doesn't need to join it. Hope this explains the reversion. If you've any questions, or need any help, please get in contact with me on my talk page and I'll be delighted to assist! Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 11:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! Categories are necessary but horrible, horrible things. They're never what you expect them to be and never work as you plan them to! But there's a dedicated and hardworking team at Wikipedia:Category schemes trying to keep things straight.

As such, there's no easy way of deciding - even the Category advice page says they are "cumbersome (categories can't be edited directly)" and "awkward (category listings are not present at the point of data-entry forcing user to remember category names on his own or guess)". I really hate to say this, as it's probably no use to you and certainly no use to me, but the only way of deciding on the fly is commonsense. I told you it was no use!

Wikipedia:Category is a long page with advice, which boils down to: place an article in the lowest possible subcategory, except where a better-focussed article is already there. Which isn't much use either!

The two ways I find correct categories are to either slowly drill down through Wikipedia:Browse or to search. The search facility is less than helpful when not looking for articles: I do a search for something that won't come up as an article (ie "category broadcasting" = Special:Search?search=category+broadcasting&go=Go) then scroll to the bottom, untick everything, tick "category" and remove the word "category" from the search string. That cumbersome method produces a search of categories that mention the other term (= Special:Search?ns14=1&search=broadcasting&fulltext=Search).

A third way is to look for similar articles and find what category they are in. If the original article isn't there, then add it.

A rule-of-thumb might be to say that if both the category and the article have existed for a long time and one is not in the other, there's probably a reason for it.

Sorry I can't be of more help - as I say, categories are horrible, horrible things! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 13:54, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Redvers, Thank you for confirming what I thought.. I used a precedent approach, ie I thought BBC is synonymous with CNN is some respects, hence my tagging BBC with a like category..

The delay in introducing TV to South Africa was a form of censorship, thats why I have tagged those two articles, ie SABC and Television in South Africa with that category.. I hear one must be bold on Wiki, so I know there are plenty of experts around who have plenty of time to fix things eventually..

It is interesting thinking about the modus operandi of all the types and roles of Wiki people..

Thanks for the time and effort to fill me in.. Regards, Gregorydavid 06:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Greg

Great to have at least two active contributors to this site! Keep on the good work! I know the SA page quite well, I've even contributed to an article there about Monte Carlo Rallying. I guess I have to add a section and picture about the Monza on Wiki pretty soon. Using that name and not writing anything...

Rgds,

Morten Dkwmonza 22:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the notification about that bit of vandalism. Actually, all the pages I'm working on are on my watchlist, so I tend to notice things like that pretty quick; also, there's a whole bunch of good folks working on keeping the article clean right now (it's getting loads of edits because it's on the front page). Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 20:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Basically, it's a case of responding pretty quick, so that when someone does a bad edit I can just revert it (ie. edit the last good version and save it). Since articles like Panama Canal tend to be in lots of peoples' watchlists, that happens most of the time. If some good changes are made then a bunch of bad stuff, it's a case of manually sorting the good from the bad, starting with whichever version is nearest the desired result; but that doesn't happen too often. Of course, sometimes mistakes are made, so if a well-intended edit is chucked out with the bathwater, I hope you won't take it personal! (You did exactly the right thing by bringing it up in the talk page.) Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 21:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Couch Rugby has been proposed for deletion. Please see the article for details. NickelShoe 01:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The guideline you should look over would be WP:NEO. You'll notice the article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Couch Rugby. They're arguing that this is a negligible term and the thing it describes lacks widespread popularity. If you can show otherwise, make sure the article makes that clear, and make sure and say so at the deletion discussion.

I don't know how popular this is, so I couldn't say whether it's salvagable or not. NickelShoe 13:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have discovered that my account "Happyjoe" is blocked from editing due to some sort of misunderstanding over the Big Spring, TX article. I am uncertain who to contact to have this mistake fixed. Please remove this block so that I may complete necessary editing on other articles. Thank you for your timely assistance in resolving this problem... Happyjoe 69.145.215.206 04:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Happy Joe, you need to contact one of the Wiki Administrators, User:Commander Keane once helped me with a simmilar problem. He may need to contact you via e-mail. I shall leave him a message. Regards, Gregorydavid 14:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I uploaded a few more pictures from the day I was there to commons, and made a link on the artcle page. You can see from this pic Falkirk_Wheel_lock_SMC.jpg where the bottom section links to the lower canal. Falkirk_Wheel_Sign_SMC.jpg gives a bit more info on how it works, hopefully that helps work out your question. Sorry but when I went I didn't go on the boat so I don't know what the entry point looks like close up. Cheers SeanMack 15:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just checked again and loaded up a few more pics - yeah it does seem that the arms move within a dry box - however I guess we would need a picture of the bottom of it (or someone from there to go look) to tell us how dry it actually is...SeanMack 16:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, sometimes things are a bit sloooow at work ... :-) Elf-friend 11:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Through misunderstandings I accidentally opened up & used 2 accounts (on 2 different machines) - Grahambould & GrahamBould. I have decided on the second & moved what could (including Watchlist) to GrahamBould, but I can't see how to move Contributions. Can you help? Graham Bould 21:43, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi mate, just bringing to your attention The Game - check out the dab link I created for the South African show. The link to Gavin Hood has nothing to do with the Football (Australian rules) show. Just letting you know, cheers - Rogerthat ^Talk 02:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, glad you like the user page. Anyone can contribute to it so if you can find improvements that need to be made feel free.

Harington was set up as a disambiguation page that wasn't actually disambiguating anything. What are the worldwide uses of the specific spelling Harington (one r)? If there is only one use then that should be where the article is located, with a note to say that Harrington (two rs) is an alternative spelling. If there is more than one use then it is appropriate to have a disambig page there, but you need to say what those uses are, rather than just having links to the alternative spellings. If there are no individual uses for that spelling then a redirect to the Harrington disambig page would be more appropriate.

On the Harrington page please place the alternative spellings under a "see also" at the bottom, not at the top of the page. Sorry I deleted them, I have a habit of being too brash at times. -- Francs2000 13:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the article was disambiguous of nature when I created it, but there is more to come.. Thats why I went there again.. I tend to create some articles instintivly while working on others, so that is why I still have to create the perfect one.. Cheers, Gregorydavid 14:59, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note then, it's worth bearing in mind that these things get judged very quickly for whether they are valid articles or not, and those that don't appear to be get deleted quite fast. What I would recommend is making sure there is at least a couple of sentences stating what the article is about; either or just leaving a red link that you can come back to later. -- Francs2000 15:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I can take the punch, it started with Padraig Harington sourced from the internet with no article on Wiki, so I created a Miki article and the next day someone had sorted out the disambiguation after finding the two R version.. Thanks Gregorydavid 15:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm not entirely certain what you are referring to. I have had very little influence on the apartheid article, save for a few modifications here and there, and I wasn't responsible for creating it (the credit must go to others). I'm also unaware what ELXLE is, could you perhaps explain further? Thanks, — Impi 09:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now. Please remember though that even when speaking of articles I have started, others do come afterwards to add to those. I don't think anybody on Wikipedia can take full credit for any decently-sized article, at least not for long at any rate. Thanks for the explanation of what ELXLE meant, as it is certainly interesting, but might I ask what the relevance of the question was? — Impi 12:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Re "fractions of minutes must be reduced ...", I think you may have misread what was there, 'cos all I did was revert — it was originally deg, min, sec, frac. No big.

The English part of the plate says "Cape L'Agulhas / You are now at the southern most tip of the continent of Africa". As for the erosion thing, as I said on the talk page, it is interesting, but I'm not sure how you tell which way the currents are going from the sat pics? I'd love to see this explained. Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 11:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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User conversations are one weak area of WP, IMHO.

• You can just reply on the other person's page; this makes sure that they see it, but then anyone following the conversation has to flip back and forth between pages.
• You can do what I do, which is manually place links to the replies: go to the history, select the appropriate diff, and paste in the URL. Tedious, but it displays the whole chain.
• Some people keep all replies on one talk page. Sensible, but it requires the other person to have it in their watch list.

This is why, if you're talking about an article, it is far better to keep all the talk on the article's page. Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 19:29, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]