User talk:Viljowf

Deletions

Hi User:Jimfbleak I'm the editor of an edit-a-thon on South African music. Please see a list of our significant revisions at the dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/AOI/Fynbos_Edit-a-thon

You've deleted our revisions on Madosini. We also commissioned an entry on Thandeka Mfinyongo, who we'll assist in getting the entry up to standard. Will you please return the drafts to my userspace so that we continue working on it? Happy to address any questions you might have. Viljowf (talk) 14:50, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've restored them both as subpages of your user page with the appropriate names. I have to say that they both need a huge amount of work Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Viljowf (talk) 15:28, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Stephanus Muller

Hello, Viljowf. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Stephanus Muller, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:03, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Stephanus Muller

Hello, Viljowf. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Stephanus Muller".

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. If 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!} 03:23, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Future status

Hi Viljowf,

Sorry, I didn't see your comment at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound before it closed. For what it's worth, I'm not trying to squash ambitions here - if you want to get an editing group going, that's fantastic! Happy to make suggestions. It's just that the full machinery of tagging articles, assessing them, etc. is "heavyweight" and tends to lead to a lot of "wasted" work on internal stuff that readers never see. So it's usually best to start an informal group first so that the focus is on editing, not on internal organization, which Wikipedia already has in spades. A simple on-wiki list of articles worked on works fine, or using Category:South African music. You can see that Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Politics task force has a list of related categories, for example.

I'm not trying to be too much a downer here, just this is one of those "from bitter experience" thing - there are tons and tons of inactive task forces lying around that had one or two well-meaning people doing a bunch of work on internal organization, then nobody else showing up, then the main editor moving on. Which is sad but harmless if it was just a page or two, but leaves a bunch of Stuff everywhere otherwise which nobody wants to clean up, and is perceived as a feel bad "this topic doesn't matter" if it IS cleaned up. The end goal is upgrading the articles themselves, after all.

That said, I'd recommend considering just asking on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Africa, and either moving your project to a subpage, or possibly creating a task force similar to the Politics task force linked above. If you go the task force option, there'll be an option added to the Template:WikiProject South Africa list where someone can simply mark an article already marked as South Africa as also being about music. That said, I'd really suggest just seeing how things go first. SnowFire (talk) 19:44, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and I suggest you read WP:TFA and WP:BACKWARDS before attempting to create more articles. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. UtherSRG (talk) 11:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Stephanus Muller for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Stephanus Muller is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanus Muller until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

UtherSRG (talk) 11:20, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Southern African Music & Sound portal articles

A tag has been placed on Category:Southern African Music & Sound portal articles 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:01, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Viljowf. Thank you for your work on Koortjie. Another editor, Bastun, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice work on your new article. Please consider adding it to appropriate Wikiprojects.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Bastun}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 15:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Viljowf (talk) 15:37, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 18:23, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]