User talk:Africa Festival/Archive 1

Deleted Discussions
If you were looking for earlier discussions I deleted them!but are available if you want them!

Allan Savory
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your edits. I'll wait a while before adding more, I think you should use the references format I put in there for you to be like other articles. Moscatanix 16:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Iraq
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing. —Kenyon (t·c) 01:55, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Robert Mugabe
Just woundering why you deleted the sentence about Mugabe's child entering the London School of Economics. Thanks, Hon.DJP 15:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Interested in helping wikipedia in Shona/Ndebele?
Hi Africa Festival of the beautiful name :) Thanks for your contributions in the Africa sphere so far. Coming from Zimbabwe, I wonder if you speak Shona and/or Ndebele, and would be be interested in helping develop Wikipedia in either of those languages? Take a look at this page if you're interested. Greenman 13:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the kind note. Perspicacite 02:17, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Pius Ncube
Hi! I see that the Pius Ncube article has been vandalised recently and that you have reverted it. I was just wondering if you meant to revert it to the edit before mine? I dont feel that what I added was vandalism and I did source it well (I thought so anyway). If there was a particular reason you didn't like my stuff please tell me as Im still quite new and I may have screwed up without meaning to.

Thanks

CaptinJohn 08:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Revamp
Just to let you know, I have completely revamped the WikiProject Zimbabwe page so that it is more uniform to the layout and design of other WikiProjects. Please have a look and try to fill in any of the new sections created. Your help is much appreciated. Many thanks, Mangwanani 16:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

WPZW September
Hi,

As the number of people taking part in WikiProject Zimbabwe grows, I have more and more people to notify of changes. If you havn't already done so, please could you add the notice board to your watch list so that I can add any changes there and only once not as many times as there are members. Many thanks, Mangwanani 13:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Arthur G.O. Mutambara
I wonder if you ever bothered to read the edit you reverted. The only source that went was the tvnz.co.nz link and that source was clearly bunkum. It was used to support a description of the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai as "mainstream"; the word mainstream was never used in the source. "Main" was but that is in any case a point of view description and not appropriate for Wikipedia. WP:NPOV mandates that we can't regard either part of the MDC as the "main" faction because that is to endorse them. We can say that one is bigger than the other. Don't revert this edit. Fys. Ta fys aym. 09:25, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Change you can Xerox
Hi Africa Festival. I have proposed merging Change you can Xerox into Democratic Party (United States) presidential debates, 2008. Here is a link to the discussion. &mdash;Noah 17:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Solusi University Faculty of Science & Technology
I have nominated Solusi University Faculty of Science & Technology, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Solusi University Faculty of Science & Technology. 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.  Noetic  Sage  02:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Movement for Democratic Change sources
Heya,

Thanks so much for all your brilliant work on the Movement for Democratic Change article!!

I had added two templates (refimprove and Original research) as there were entire stretches of text without any sources. I had posted on the talk page about this when I did it, and I'd really appreciate it if you could discuss there before removing them, as otherwise I can't understand why you do it - though I'm sure it's the best of motives.

So, thanks a lot for all of your work, and if you don't mind, I can add the templates back - and look forward to the discussion on Talk:Movement for Democratic Change.

Many thanks, Drum guy (talk) 20:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:NelsonChamisa.jpg
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Image source problem with Image:Tsvakhuphe.jpg
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Image source problem with Image:Thokok.jpg
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Movement for Democratic Change
I have tried to split the article Movement for Democratic Change, into Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai and Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2004), leaving the Tsvangirai faction as the main article (Movement for Democratic Change). I got a small amount of consensus on the talk page (although not much!). However, I got to making a good start on the pre-2004 article when you said that the parties were back together, which is simply not true. They operate entirely seperately, and are considered legally, commercially etc to be two separate parties. Hence in parliament, even the new parliament, they are considered as separate entities. It is certainly a priority to split this article. Perhaps the only thing in question is the name of the party. I respect that some people call the party different things, and that maybe therefore we need to call the Mutambara faction Movement for Democratic Change - Mutambara, but both call themselves MDC. However, here I have a pretty good source (I think you would agree!) saying that the name is MDC-T, whilst Mutambara is simply MDC--HandGrenadePins (talk) 10:24, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for permission. I'm glad we can come to a compromise. Really apreciate the work you 've done so far on the topic by the way.--HandGrenadePins (talk) 10:38, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Tsvangiraim.jpg
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Image copyright problem with Image:Solusisignweb.jpg
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MDC articles
Hi. Seeing that you have contributed regularly to the Movement for Democratic Change article, I am notifying you that I have now split it into: I think this better reflects the current political dispensation and avoids confusion from readers new to the topic, as discussed on the talk page. So far, all that has been done is redistributing the existing text between the three articles, copyediting and (some) link-fixing in other articles. I'd appreciate it, if you have time, for you to take a look at the three articles for any mistakes I have made, plus naturally to continue imporving the article. Thanks. Babakathy (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005)
 * 2) Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
 * 3) Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambara
 * 4) Movement for Democratic Change - as a disambiguation page

File:Tsvangiraimorgan.jpg
Hi Africa Festival, one of your images, File:Tsvangiraimorgan.jpg, was transfered to Commons. Some problems: If it is not your photo please let me know and i will delete it. A nonfree image on Commons can cause trouble to Wikimedia and financial problems to you. Commons and Wikipedia host only free images, every person or company can reuse photos from Wikipedia or Commons for every purpose including commercial use. If the claim "own work" is wrong, the real holder of copyrights will announce a financial damage. --Martin H. (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * According to the date you toke the photo on February 9, 2008. Thats not correct, the image is taken in April 2008. Can you correct the day and probably the location?
 * I have my doubts, that this photo is realy entirely created by youself: Wrong date, taken at a location you never was, webresolution, your prior problems with copyrights....


 * Forget about my question, i found the image myself here: http://www.daylife.com/photo/07dY3Yu4sv4Ry. The image is speedydeleted and a strong warning: Do NOT copy images from other sources and claim, that they are "created by yourself"!! --Martin H. (talk) 19:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

University of Zimbabwe
Do you know who any of these people are: thanks. Babakathy (talk) 14:33, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Basil Fletcher (professor)
 * 2) Langham
 * 3) Llewelyn

File source problem with File:Zimbabwedaily.jpg
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Speedy deletion nomination of Africa Center for Holistic Management


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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Contests
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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
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Nomination of Norman Maphosa for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Pileus area index


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Nomination of Pileus area index for deletion
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