User talk:Richardwooding

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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

za list.

Feel free to ad your name to the list of South African Wikipedians. — Jeandré, 2005-07-07t17:44z

Please unblock me

{{unblock}} The reason I was blocked was provided as follows:

"Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Netsnipe for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Adriaan 1". The reason given for Adriaan 1's block is: "Use of 72.232.98.64 to vandalise userpages.".

Your IP address is 198.54.202.254. "

I am sure that the IP address blocked is an IP address belonging to an upstream service provider (please note that South Africa at the moment has a Telekom monopoly), if this is the case it is likely that a very large amount of users have been blocked, I do not know and am not associated with "Adriaan 1".

Richardwooding 14:36, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons:

Collateral damage: You were hit with the autoblocker tool, which blocked the underlying IP address of a recently-blocked user.

Request handled by: Deathphoenix ʕ 15:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Adoption

Howdy! I noticed that you have a request for adoption on your page. While I don't consider myself anything special, I have been told that I am an experienced editor, and if you would so wish, I would like to adopt you! :) Drop me a line on my talk page! GofG _|^|_| Contribs 23:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! I've never done this, so um... if you need help with anything, drop me a line at my talk page! I noticed you have been editing Methamphetamine. Is this because of an interest in medicine, or maybe atomic physics? If so, there are some Wikiprojects you might want to join, to put you with like-minded editors editing articles under a range of different topics. Just a suggestion! :) GofG _|^|_| Contribs 02:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, you live in South Africa? Perhaps you should become involved in the article on South Africa, or on some of the specific towns and cities in South Africa. Most of the English wikipedia is based in western countries, and as such I'm sure any expertise on those articles would be appreciated. If you're bored, of course, there is always antivandalism work to do. Try out User:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool if you want to do some antivandalism work; it is an awesome tool. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 03:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe by Western, i kinda actually meant... Well, the West of the world. West Europe and USA, etc. Like, while there are countries in other places that are considered Western, the English wikipedia doesn't have many editors from them, because they oftentimes don't speak English. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 14:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yeah, well, when you hit "Show details" you can look at teh diff. If you believe the diff to be vandalism, you can hit "Rollback" and revert it. Then, hit "warn" to warn the editor with one of the standard warnings: {{subst:test1}} through {{subst:test4}}. After test four, if they continue to vandalise, you can report them to WP:AIV and they will be blocked. Hope that helps :) GofG _|^|_| Contribs 18:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About the language, I never knew that! Hehe I guess I need to read up on South Africa :). GofG _|^|_| Contribs 20:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2008 in Cape Town

Hi. Would you be interested in helping to ensure Wikimania 2008 is held in Cape Town? If so, please go to the Cape Town bid page, and sign up on the discussion page. Feel free to dive right in with adding suggestions, or fleshing out the bid! I'd greatly appreciate any help, no matter how small. Greenman 23:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Beasley

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Kevin Smith (South African actor) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

If you are not interested in applying, I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Best regards, Islahaddow

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