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Witchcraft Suppression etc.
Hi! Thanks for all the work you've put in to the Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill article - you have dealt with all the issues I complained about on the talk page, and the article is greatly improved. I though you might be interested in the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 article which I've just created; at the moment it's quite short but some of the information from the Mpumalanga bill article might also be applicable to the 1957 act. - htonl (talk) 10:31, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the feedback! HelenOnline (talk) 11:58, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Paganism in South Africa
Thanks Helen for getting this article together and introducing it into the family of articles on the topic! I've been editing in this area on WP for a few years now and it's always nice to see the list of articles expanded. Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk)  08:57, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi and thanks Kim, I am busy expanding the article now. HelenOnline (talk) 10:36, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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Southern hemisphere
Dear HelenOnline.

To me, I believe that Neopagan holidays is a strictly northern hemisphere of temperate region only celebration, in a way because Neopagan followers who reside in the equator are logically not allowed to celebrate the holidays, simply because there is no season in the equator, which is "unfair" to think about it. I don't know, but the only Neopagans in the southern hemisphere is probably a minority in Australia, only because they follow their British ancestors. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Despite of that, you're correct, I was asking myself while removing this. There is no reason why I should remove the "southern hemisphere" explanation. I was just irrationally concerned that the "southern hemisphere" addition will invite people to criticize the Neopagan days as not notable enough and too pseudo-religion to be placed in the Holidays and observances section. (as the case of the past Discordian holiday, Asatru, and Latvian neopaganism). I myself is the person who wanted to keep the Wiccan days in the Holidays and observances and have created a proposed rule for it.

I am sorry for removing your edit. Please wait as I reverted the edit back with the southern hemisphere addition, equinoxes and solstices. -Rochelimit (talk) 16:07, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa
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.doualabell@undefineddoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahf@undefinedafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

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Religion in Northern Ireland
Hi Helen, Just to let you know I was about to create a 2011 census table for religion on the Demography of Northern Ireland article and came across your excellent table on the above article so wanted to admit to you that I have unceremoniously just lifted it and incorporated it wholesale. Nice work! Tmol42 (talk) 00:49, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
Please note that the editor Photohistorian, who presumably also identifies as 71.201.155.116, posted the gratuitous details "Genetic Genealogist George Jones" in three Wiki pages (here, here and here). He has confirmed on my talk page that he is in fact George Jones and has therefore violated the WP:No original research and WP:NOTPROMOTION rules. HelenOnline (talk) 06:43, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Reeva Steenkamp
Since you made a comment, I wonder if you can add either {{subst:DYK?}} or {{subst:DYK?no}} at the start of your recently added comment. --George Ho (talk) 16:54, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I will try figure out how to do that. HelenOnline (talk) 17:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You notified me about the nomination. While I appreciate that, I haven't contributed much else on the article. You can fix the issues yourself, or have a community talk with other major contributors of Reeva Steenkamp. With pleasure, George Ho (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Douglas C. Wallace


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Debora Patta
Hi! Thanks for working on the Debora Patta article. I think one thing is that many articles include criticism but do not segregate it to a "criticism" section, they have it spread throughout the article. Perhaps the best step is to try to integrate the material in the criticism section into other sections WhisperToMe (talk) 22:19, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
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DYK for Reeva Steenkamp
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DYK for Daily Maverick
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Thanks!
Thanks for the barnstar. It occurs to me that, in light of all the articles on my watchlist where your edits have popped up, you definitely deserve this:

Hi Helen, Just want to let you know that most users display their barnstars on their main user pages. Copying it to there would prevent it from dissapearing in future when your old talk page topics get archived. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:24, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

About Kagiso
I'm really glad to see someone else is also keeping an eye on the persistent spamming of that article. Take a look at the history - you'll see it's been going on for months - if not more than a year. The cherry on the cake is that the spammer is now trying to submit an article about their website - see Spidersweb (it's currently under Speedy so even if it is a redlink by the time you see it, take a look at the deletion record) and WT:Articles for creation/Kagiso, Gauteng. Please consider giving the editor a formal warning for linkspamming on Kagiso. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:52, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Adding a referrence
Hi Helen please help me add a referrence to the www.wikipedia.com/kagiso page the reference is www.kagisotownship.co.za — Preceding unsigned comment added by MyKagiso (talk • contribs) 11:38, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * What information in the article are you trying to provide a reference for? Helen (talk) 11:53, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

It's for a website that gives tourists information about places they can visit in kagiso and get the latest news and navigation. We are doing it to make people aware about our city. I only want to put the reference www.kagisotownship.co.za — Preceding unsigned comment added by MyKagiso (talk • contribs) 12:05, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry that's not what references are for. A reference provides a reliable source for information as Wikipedia is not a primary source of information. There are many other reasons why the website link does not belong in the article (WP:LINKSTOAVOID, WP:LINKSPAM, WP:ADV, WP:ELREG). Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia written primarily by volunteers with that purpose in mind, not free advertising. Rules and guidelines are necessary to ensure that the information contained in the encyclopedia is not biased and the generosity of the donors and volunteers is not abused. Helen (talk) 12:40, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Please add a reference for me
Hi Helen please add this reference http://www.kagisotownship.co.za at www.wikipedia.com/kagiso — Preceding unsigned comment added by MyKagiso (talk • contribs) 13:03, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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Satanic Panic (South Africa)
VERY impressive! Thanks for your hard work. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Phew, thanks for the feedback :) Helen (talk) 13:53, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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Card suit correspondence
good day Hellen, could you please check my comment in the discussion of the suit cards page? I really think that the correspondence table is not correct, if at all a correspondence table can be made. As far as I understood, there is more a derivation tree of suits, plus suits that probably jump out of the void, just to fill in the blank of an otherwise missing fourth suit (German and Swiss Schellen not clearly associated with anything, but according to the way Germans play Skat: Diamonds; Swiss Roses associated to Hearts only because it's the fourth and available suit, but also very possibly derived from geographically contiguous and graphically similar Denari in the Bergamasche cards. It would be interesting checking how the Swiss play their national games with the different suit systems.). What the French Chartomancers did, well, that was also arguing that tarot cards came from ancient Egypt, didn't they? We do mention that as a historical curiosity, but we know that they had been developed for a specific a card game from Bologna, apparently still existing. Agreed, we should find references for what we say, but selecting references to support only one opinion is also not wikipedia-correct. My source for associating diamonds to denari is the table itself (it would avoid the multiple rows for association of suit with a class in society. The way it is now, it is inconsistent with itself.) and the way North-West Italians play Scopone with their French suited cards. Mfrasca (talk) 06:48, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Satanic Panic (South Africa)
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Love the "Rainbow nation" text on your user page
May I beg/borrow/steal some of it for my user page? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:49, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, no problem :) Helen (talk) 10:05, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Citation Bot
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 * Thank you Rebekah, I did not know that. There is no need for sarcasm. Helen (talk) 12:37, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Helen, if and when I am sarcastic in Wikipedia editing, I will add a :-> smile so that you will know. I am usually deadly serious in my Wiki work. Have you looked at the Family Tree DNA article lately? Someone actually put prices in the autosomal section. :-( I am working on a list of reputable sources in the Additional reading section before work on a clean up begins. --RebekahThorn (talk) 13:57, 20 June 2013 (UTC)