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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&#32; because of the following concern:
 * * Incorrect article title. The title states stations, but the content deals with lines.


 * 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  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)

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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)

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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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CS1 error on Newag
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Deletion discussion about Polihali Dam
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 * What a hostile place for contribution. -- Firefishy (talk) Firefishy (talk) 17:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)