User talk:Shaftshank

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Good to see your new article on Elias Kudzai Manyara. If poetry in Zimbabwe is an area of interest for you, there's a huge amount of work to be done in this area. Pick any name from the List of African writers (by country) and you're likely to be able to improve it. Other useful links might be: Happy Wiki-ing! JackyR 21:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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Notability
By the way, glad tho I am to see any Zim writer on WP, there is always the question of notability. Guidelines can be found at Notability (people). If Manyara has published only one book, two weeks ago, then he's unlikely to meet these criteria - yet. Could you offer a little more info to bolster the "notability" claim? Otherwise his article could end up deleted... Cheers, JackyR 21:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Elias Kudzai Manyara
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Fram (talk) 13:57, 17 October 2008 (UTC)