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Your submission at Articles for creation: Quinton van Rooyen (January 8)
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Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 20:06, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:General elections in Namibia


A tag has been placed on Category:General elections in Namibia indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 02:19, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Afrikaners in Namibia
I appreciate your concern that one not "guess" as to the number of Afrikaners currently living in Namibia. However my edit on the Afrikaners page was not a guess but an estimate. *All* the population numbers in the summary box (excepting those from the 2011 South African census) are estimates. The number 92,400 for 2003 (which you restored) is itself an estimate, generated (I assume from the attached cite) from the calculation: 1,927,447 (July, 2003 est.) * 0.08 ("Ethnic groups: Black 84%, White 8%, Mixed 8%") * 0.6 ("About 60% of the whites speak Afrikaans") = 92,517. But why is this estimate (now 20 years old) any better than my estimate? Especially when I clearly explicated my methodology which is based on 2016 Namibian census data? Darelmass (talk) 17:01, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Darelmass, thanks for reaching out to me. I'm not sure if you read the policy on Original Research which I cited in my edit summary. No matter how good your estimate is, it is not on you to make it. Wikipedia summarises published and verified statements, and if there is a statement that cannot be validated then it will eventually be removed. I wasn't aware that the previous numbers were likewise estimates---that means, they should be removed, too. I suggest to take this discussion to Talk:Afrikaners.
 * But your estimate isn't good, just like the old one wasn't. There is no reason why the average household size should apply to Afrikaner families. There is no reason why half of Afrikaans speakers should be white. There is no reason that all white Afrikaans speakers should be Afrikaners. There is no indication the Afrikaner population has grown over the years. And there is no determination of what is required to be counted there: some Afrikaner roots, more than 50%, "pure"? As such, it is just a number, admittedly not worse than the older one, but one that definitely belongs elsewhere but not in Wikipedia.
 * I haven't questioned your other changes because I mainly maintain Namibia-related articles. I suggest to either put a historic number from the time when ethnicity was part of the census questions, or to indicate the amount of Afrikaans speakers instead, or to remove this number entirely. Hope this helps, Pgallert (talk) 11:02, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Article's for deletion
Many years ago you helped me learn about COI and how using Articles for a Creation was a great way for peer reviewers to help me vet my own COI. Those articles were about my parents, a researcher and a philosopher. Both are now being considered for deletion. I wanted to let you know about these discussions. Please let me know if this amounts to canvasing. D kriegls ( talk to me! ) 00:32, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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Concern regarding Draft:Quinton van Rooyen
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:02, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Quinton van Rooyen


Hello, Pgallert. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Quinton van Rooyen".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:24, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

At Wikimania
Hi Peter. I am also attending Wikimania. We can meet up and chat Yah. I am reachable at +264 81 7497874 Martin Hipangwa (talk) 04:22, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at
A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at  on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkl talk  09:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Indigenous people in German South West Africa has been nominated for merging
Category:Indigenous people in German South West Africa has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 21:23, 14 October 2023 (UTC)