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Note re: South Africa, map of Eastern Frontier from Smith

Hi,

I was appreciating your excellent work redrawing the map from opposite p.620 in Smith for the Xhosa Wars article. I know a bit more about that map's origins, and wanted to send you a note about it.

The base map appears to have been John Arrowsmith's 1851 "Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, (and part of Kafirland) From Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River. Chiefly from M.S. Surveys & Sketches communicated by Lt. Col. Mitchell late Survr. Genl. of the Colony and Captn. Wm Owen ..."--redrawn itself, not from the original copperplate (it's clearly a new litho). "British Kaffraria" (1847-66) also only ever extended to the Kei River; beyond that was "Kaffraria Proper" (later Transkeian Territories) though on your redrawing of the map you've extended BK beyond the Kei. The original map was not at all clear on issues of boundary, which is to be expected from a printer who used source maps that were to hand.

regards

L F Braun Dartmouth College —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.170.90.43 (talk) 00:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Map

Your comments on the map are very much appreciated. Will soon update the map itself and the metadata with the information you supplied. Yes, the Kaffraria border was suspect, thanks for that tip. JMK (talk) 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 27 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kamfers Dam, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thank you for your contributions! - Mailer Diablo 17:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hals

You made me think about the difference between nek, hals en keel, but indeed, in Dutch hals means the front side of the neck, while nek is generally the backside of it. Sometimes nek has the same meaning as neck, meaning the part of the body between the shoulders and the head. Hals, however, can only mean the front side. Hope this is of any help to you. --Hooiwind (talk) 09:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Municipalities of Zimbabwe

Great can you red link them [[]]? Sometime I'll get around to creating district templates with them linked in. I'll create some blank templates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/District templates later if you like. Wanna help? Count Blofeld 17:41, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Yes its probably about time we also seperated the towns from the districts. Probably most of the districts are missing too. I'll contact you in a few hours time when I create the empty templates Count Blofeld 17:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I;ve created the first one Template:Beitbridge District to emulate the flag colors.If you think the red is too overbearing I can change it to light blue. Let me know if you are happy with it and I'll draw up the bones of all the district templates Count Blofeld 20:08, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK I've begun drawing them up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/District templates. I;ve filled in the first two. May I ask what source you used to obtain the municipalities? Its just we need to ensure the names red linked are fully correct. I just noticed some odd ones like (a) and (b) and (Iii) etc. If this is correct OK but it needs to be done correctly. Once the template are filled with the municipalities they can be stubbed. Any idea where we could could find basic population/demographic figures for each municipality? Count Blofeld 20:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Woodward brothers

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UFO sightings

Do you think you make the corresponding columns in the different tables the same width. I have absolutely no idea how to do this. Sorry to be a pest.Anarwan (talk) 09:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the Sources column can be made very small to give us more space. Maybe just call it "Ref". Hopefully it will soon contain nothing but numbers.Anarwan (talk) 09:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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"Jacana"

Hi, JMK. I was working on Jacana#Etymology and wondered how the word is pronounced in South African English. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 20:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Your IPA looks right to me except that the accent mark goes before the stressed syllable. The pronunciation you gave is also how it's pronounced in Australia and by most American birders that I've heard, but not in most American dictionaries.

You must have learned English from an early age—I had no idea it wasn't your first language (or one of them). —JerryFriedman (Talk) 23:02, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of South Africa and Siege of Eshowe

I noticed this was added, removed, added.

I am presuming it was a bot error or something, as I see no discussion.

Wouldn't [[Category:History of Kwa-Zulu Natal]] be a sub-category of [[Category:History of South Africa]] ? Wizzy…☎ 19:27, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copying Wikipedia material

Hi. :) I note that you recently performed a split of material to the article Stellenbosch University halls of residence from Stellenbosch University, and I just wanted to drop you a note to point out a few things about the procedure. As Wikipedia:Split sets out, when we split material, we have to provide a direct link to the source article. This is necessary because Wikipedia's contributors do not release their material into public domain, but retain rights to authorship under the terms of our licenses, CC-By-SA and GFDL. This wikilink satisfies that requirement by allowing readers to access the history and see who contributed what and when. Usually, we put into the edit summary something along the lines of "Split from Sourcearticle". Then, we note the split as well in an edit summary at the source article. That would read like "Material split to Stellenbosch University halls of residence", in this case. This helps make sure that the article is not later deleted, as it cannot be as long as the article to which the material has been split remains. We also have an optional template for the talk pages of both articles at {{Copied}} (instructions for using it found there). This particular case is complicated in that the material you took from Stellenbosch University is either going to have to be rewritten or removed, as it was initially placed in the first article as a copyright violation. And it also seems that you have incorporated several other articles, including Dagbreek, and while you did mention these articles in edit summary, you didn't link to them as is required. (Also, when you merge all of the material from an article, you should put {{R from merge}} on the page to help avoid its inadvertent deletion. See Help:Merge for more on this). Could you please provide a direct link in a null edit summary to any other Wikipedia articles from which you may have incorporated text there? And if you have moved material around from other Wikipedia articles, we'll need to address that. Thanks, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to let me know. I'm watching your talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:27, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, thanks for all the advice, and I certainly wasn't up to date with all these. It would appear as if you removed the tainted intro, while the remainder, as far as I can see, could be original research but at least not copyvio. I placed a note to that effect on the discussion page. Will add the null edit as soon as I understand procedure. JMK (talk) 09:23, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Template

yes, of course. I would help, if I can ;)

mabdul 18:38, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Loskop Dam

I see in the edit remarks that you say Loskop is only a reservoir and not a dam wall, i can tell you it is both, go to :http://www.dwa.gov.za/Hydrology/applets/weekly/WeekIndex.html than : Mpumalanga Province then Loskop Dam : and tick on the p behind the name of the river it will show you a picture of the actual dam wall.Flagman (talk) 13:02, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

tautology is, if it is not required, however, not every visitor is South African, in fact, most are not!. Therefore a dam wall and a dam (reservoir) have different meanings to different people. Even in (proper) English, they have different meanings (as they do in Dutch), it is therefore only South Africans that use the same name for both. Tautology is therefore not the same for every one.Flagman (talk) 11:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Accept it so and will revert. JMK (talk) 15:01, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]