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August GOCE newsletter
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Heey how are you. Which pages have you worked on lately Hurungudo (talk) 09:37, 17 August 2018 (UTC) Since your last reviews, you havent taken a look at my recent work... you my mentor remember Mono Mukundu, New Reserve Bank Tower, Blessing Mashangwa, George Munengwa. I want to keep improving — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurungudo (talk • contribs) 09:46, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Question re. amaBhungane (Q23927926)
Would you mind relaying a request for help to Teahouse? I don't recall having heard of them before, and I'm confused about the best way to request help of this nature.

Regarding the tone of the article, I changed "proudly proclaim" to "claim" in the third sentence, but I'm pressed for time and would prefer not to have to work a lot more on this right now.

A search for "amaBhungane" within Wikipedia before I created the article produced many matches, being citations to news reports they had filed that had been quoted in a number of articles. This confirms, I think, my previous assessment of notability.

I started working on this article July 24 immediately after an interview I got with Stefaans Brümmer, one of the managing partners of amaBhungane. I currently live in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and scheduled a couple of extra days in Cape Town after Wikimania 2018, July 18-22. Their "pre-conference", July 18, included an invitation-only sub-conference on "Decolonizing the Internet", to which I was explicitly not invited as a white male ;-) This article on amaBhungane seems to be a contribution to that decolonization, but the preparation of it has been delayed from July 24 until today by the pressure of other work.

I heard about amaBhungane on June 13 from a Paul Kumleben, a South African currently associated with the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute; I met him in a conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, organized by the Institute for Nonprofit News. Kumleben said that on a budget of less than USD700,000 per year, amaBunghane had produced investigative journalism reports that had made a substantive contribution to the sequence of events that forced the resignation of President Zuma earlier this year. Sadly, I had misspelled "amaBhungane" in my notes and was not able to find them on the web -- until Wikimania, where I met a South African woman, who took me to their offices on July 23. At that point I was able to get an interview with Brümmer the next day.

In sum, I hope these comments help establish the notability of amaBhungane while also supporting my request for help in editing from other quarters: I've had the information needed produce this article since July 24 and only today was able to create the time required to post something on this. I suspect that people with Teahouse will be better able to do a better job than I could of fixing the problems you see and expanding the article appropriately -- while also allowing me to focus on other priorities.

Thanks for your many contributions to making human knowledge more accessible to all. DavidMCEddy (talk) 19:49, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * So you have a bit of a two part question, so I will answer in two parts. As for the teahouse, simply go to [] and click the blue "ask a question" button. The guides should help you out from there (I havnt really used the teahouse much, so there isnt much more I can say). As for your article, its less about what it says, and more about what it doesn't say. The article, in some ways, seems to be a list of the achievements of the organization. This is fine, but it would be best to balance this out, adding a history section, a controversy section (if relevant), or other sections on the style and method of publication would help a lot. You may find it helpful to look at more mature articles for examples, such as The New York Times. If you need a little more guidance, feel free to ask. Xevus11 (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2018 (UTC)