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In these edits, you appear to have copied content from Atlantic slave trade to History of slavery, which is perfectly ok, but a couple pointers:

1. You have to provide attribution when you do this, or else others will assume that you are the original author. It can be as simple as saying in your edit summary "copied information from "Atlantic slave trade".
2. It is more effective to copy from Atlantic slave trade's edit window; this preserves sources and formatting.
3. Please read WP:COPYWITHIN for more on copying and pasting within Wikipedia.
4. It is often helpful to use the {{Main}} or {{See also}}template to create a link to the article. E.g.:

Thank you,

-- Joren (talk) 02:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article Geoffrey Du Mhango has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

References in this article do not help establish WP:GNG, as they are directory listings. Could not find additional sources to help establish notability.

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Hi can you read WP:Categories? Please add categories to your articles e.g Category:Malawian economists. Dr. Blofeld 09:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MsTingaK! It's Joren again... just wanted to drop a note and say thanks for editing the Atlantic slave trade article. Unfortunately, on one of your edits, it looks like you copied it from the article view, which made the sources disappear: [1]. It's an easy mistake to make, don't worry, I fixed it :-) but here's what you gotta do when you're moving stuff within an article. Make sure you cut and paste it from within the article's editing view, not the reading view. If you copy from within the edit view, that will stop it from removing the sources, formatting, links, etc. Anyway, thanks for your edits and I hope you're enjoying being a part of Wikipedia,

-- Joren (talk) 05:07, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for the article you have created on Catherine Chipembere, who is a friend I have known for about 20 years in Pasadena, where she lived before going back to Malawi. She is a most inspiring lady, and I hope someone will make a tape recording of her memories of the old days, to become a published part of Malawi's history someday. She deserves a prominent place as a heroine in the founding history of modern Malawi, and of Africa, in my opinion.

I have a beautiful picture of her with Henry, taken on their wedding day, that was published last year in Harvard Magazine. I would post it in both articles if I knew the permissions were OK, but I don't. Perhaps you can help me find out about this?

I hope this welcome template helps you with your future editing. I'm no expert, but let me know if you need assistance.

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Hi again, I got your message on my talk page. We are all beginners here (because Wikipedia is huge), so there is much I do not know, but I've been editing now for three years (mostly astronomy, space, & physics) so I have a little practical experience. I taught in a school for refugees in Der es Salaam in 1962-1963, which is where I got my special interest in Africa, though I returned home before Henry and Catherine arrived there. I am in touch with some of Catherine's family here in SoCal, but have not seen her in three or four years. Is she in Malawi now, do you know? I assume she is still in Mangoche working on WIN? And where are you? I wrote a guy at Harvard a year ago re permissions for that picture, but never received an answer, so far at least. Anyhow, thanks again and be assured of my interest, support, and willingness to assist if I can. I think your desire to improve the history of women's contributions to Malawi is wonderful, and long overdue: good for you! Have you read Greg Mortenson's two books on building schools for girls in central Asia? He grew up near Arusha, I think. I recommend them highly as they are very inspiring, and probably have some relevance to Africa or any place (ie, almost everywhere) women are marginalized. All the best, Wwheaton (talk) 18:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy! After running across the article Catherine Chipembere, which you created, I took the liberty of nominating it to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the "Did You Know" section. Please feel free to check the nomination and make any improvements or corrections you feel necessary. If all goes well, it should appear on the Main Page in about five days. Thanks for your contributions! GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 14:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your nomination and feedback! Tinga --MsTingaK (talk) 02:06, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Catherine Chipembere, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. An article you created at Michael Usi has been tagged as requiring attention. In order to avoid a possible proposal for deletion, please address the issues if you can, and remove the tags when you have finished. Thanks.--Kudpung (talk) 10:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Africa Award
		For the wonderful work you've been doing on all things Malawi-related; it's wonderful to see such good, in-depth coverage of a country whose coverage on Wikipedia has been so poor up until now. Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, excellent work - exactly what Wikipedia should be all about. Keep it up! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. Your contributions are most welcome but you do not seem to be following the advice and warnings you have been given. The page you created at Dalitso Kubalasa has also been tagged for attention. Please consider returning to this and your other articles and addressing the problems. many thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:50, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My editing: 80 new articles versus a few Deletion Notifications

Hi, I didnt get any feed back on that page, I will take a look at it. I am not sure what you mean about "following advice" etc... Most of the articles on my talk page that were nominated for deletion are STILL on Facebook. Part of the problem is that people come to see this talk page and they see a few requests and they think all I create are deletable article. I have created over 80 new articles over 2 years that are still on FB, so I am not sure what you mean about "heading warnings" unless you tell me something specific since each case/article was nominated for different reasons. Also some of the 'deletion' nominations are a matter of cultural relevance. So I have people doing things like saying a particular group or person is not notable b/c they were not notable in the western countries or because they are not on international charts... etc...so its not always just about what I did, its also about reporting about countries that dont have all their information online. I will try and improve the article. thanks--MsTingaK (talk) 12:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC) thanks--MsTingaK (talk) 12:52, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MsTingaK. I just came across this edit of yours to potato back in December. Whilst I am glad that you were helping to counter Wikipedia's systemic bias against Africa, the entire content was copied from a copyrighted source. We take copyright infringement very seriously (as the earlier notices left here demonstrate). I have not checked your contributions in depth yet, but I noticed that there were similar problems with the article you most recently created (Anne Van Zyl) where the entire article had been copy and pasted (with a few minor changes) from the references. As a result I have deleted it per WP:CSD#G12 as a blatant copyright infringement. I've also noticed smaller problems in other articles that you have written. It would be very helpful if you were to revisit articles that you have written and rewrite them so that they are no longer copyright violations. If you are not willing to do this yourself I will have to open an investigation into your edits to get assistance from others to clean up your articles. Due to the serious nature of copyright infringement, I should also warn you that if I find that future contributions contain copyrighted information, I will have no option but to permanently block your account. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this. Thank you SmartSE (talk) 11:41, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

I think Im a little confused...I did not copy the "entire content from the page", for potaoes... that article is a whole page, and deals with different regions.. my edits were a few lines and were paraphrased, and then sourced. Okay, so I think as far as I understand from copyright laws, things need to be sourced or need to be sourced. If the article is sourced and its put in your own words but is still sourced, it should not be a copyright infringement right? For the Ann Van Zyl article , it came from three sources, one of them was a biographical page in chronological order - so it may look like a simple cut and paste with minor changes... It was sourced as well, but it wasnt from copy and paste , if I just 'copied and pasted' the whole article... I would have just put quotes around it and called it a day....but when it come to chronology its hard to rewrite the order of historical events, again it was all sourced... -- When you are referring to earlier notices about infringement I think you are referring to the ONE from August 2010 - there is only one of them on this page, and this is b/c i took a section from wiki and included it on to another wiki page to combine an article and didnt know we had to source content from another wiki page about the same topic. Please can you be specific with the examples so I understand and also with the the ones you want me to check.. The Ann van Zyl one was deleted so I cant go back to compare that to the original. If you do not have time to go in depth, then maybe the investigation would be quicker, otherwise, I will need more details then you copied an pasted the entire article which I know i didnt, please advise thanks... --MsTingaK (talk) 02:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, what I meant is that everything you added to potato was found in the source - obviously you didn't copy the whole of the source into the article. For example, the source says:

Potatoes also entered Africa with Belgian, British, French, and German colonists, who consumed them as a vegetable rather than as a staple starch

and you added:

It is believed that Potatoes also entered Africa with colonists, who consumed them as a vegetable rather than as a staple starch

which is clearly copied directly. Similarly

upper reaches of Rwanda (Scott 1988), potatoes took root as a new staple food crop and contributed to subsistence, surplus, and population expansion

and

In the upper reaches of Rwanda, potatoes took root as a new staple food crop and contributed to subsistence, surplus, and population expansion

etcetera. It looks to me as if you must have copy and pasted, rather than paraphrased it. The simplest way to avoid doing this in the future is to never copy and paste from a source, even if you intend to reword it to not be an infringement. Regarding Anne Van Zyl I've double checked and here are some more examples of problems:

source:

her leadership role in Pretoria Girls’ High, the first white state school in the then Northern Transvaal (now Gauteng) to open its doors to all races.

you wrote:

She led Pretoria High School for Girls as the first segregated white state school in the then Northern Transvaal (now Gauteng) to open its doors to all races

and from another source

She joined the staff of Pretoria High School for Girls as a teacher of English and was later promoted to Head of Department and then Deputy Head. In 1988 she became Principal

She joined the staff of Pretoria High School for Girls (PHSG) as an English teacher and was later promoted to Head of Department and then Deputy Head. In 1988 she became Principal of the school

Everything that I have checked in that article was like this, which is why I deleted it immediately. I will email you a copy so you can check this over for yourself. It looks as if you may also need to read up on close paraphrasing as it may be that you thought that the very slight changes you made from the sources meant that you were not violating copyright. I have looked over some more of your articles and this isn't a problem with them all but there may be problems out there. I don't have time at the moment to go through them all, but if you can remember any from this list where you might have written them in a similar way to the potato section and Van Zyl article, please go back and correct them as necessary. Drop me another note if anything is unclear. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 13:31, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged David Chiwanga for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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--This issue was resolved, meets eligibility per editors.--MsTingaK (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, I've run across several articles now where you've improperly applied WP:Categories. Please be aware of the following, taking for example the case of Malawi-Rwanda relations:

• Category:Foreign relations of Malawi - Correct
• Category:Foreign relations of Rwanda - Correct
• Category:Malawi - Incorrect, this is way too vague of a cat; only the absolutely most general articles about Malawi would go there, like the article about the whole country itself.
• Category:Rwanda - Incorrect, see above.
• Category:Malawi–Rwanda relations - Incorrect, category does not yet exist. Do not add categories unless they exist, or you are right at that moment creating them. You should only create such a category if there are, say, five or more articles that would belong in this category at the moment.

In addition, note that at Malawi-Rwanda relations you have no provided the bolded terms in the lede (see WP:Lede), and you have no provided any WP:Sourcing at all. Please correct such issues in your recent articles, and bear them in mind moving forward. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:26, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello - thanks for creating the article on Ezikiel Kalipeni. I've done a little bit of copy-editing on it. I think it would be good if you could add a little bit more information about the work that he did. I came across a couple of reviews of his work which might be useful.^[1][2][3][4]

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	Hello!! I have spent all day reading up on Zimbabwean women sculptors thanks to your hard work in creating and editing so many of those pages!! I am a sculptor from America and I can't wait to keep learning more about these artists and expanding some of their pages too. Thanks for all the work you do!! Have a nice day!! Terasaface (talk) 16:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
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We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
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We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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An article you recently created, Martha Chikuni, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Hatchens (talk) 01:42, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Martha Chikuni, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

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Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

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Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Roser Caminals-Heath has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not appear to have any significant coverage as an author (fails WP:NAUTHOR) or meet the requirements for an academic (fails WP:NPROF)

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The article Donovan Mitchell (poet) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Effectively unsourced BLP. 1st ref is passing mention, 2nd is a raw search url. Fails WP:SIGCOV. Been on the cat:nn list for 10+ years. Never been updated.

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Hello @MsTingaK!

I am a fellow wikipedian and I recently published a new article called Disability in Kenya, because I thought it was primordial to provide knowledge on disabilities in this specific country. This country's norms, perceptions, myths, and policies around persons with disabilities are unique, and as I am particularly close to Kenya, I think this article is valuabe.

But since I am quite new to Wikipedia, I wanted to know if I could get your feedback on this article. I see that you are a member of WikiProject Africa and that you have been a wikipedian for a long time, so I thought you were the wikipedian to reach out to!

Thank you in advance!

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An article you recently created, African Institute for Development Policy, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 10:32, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Agrippa Masiyakurima has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Subject of the article does not meet WP:GNG, sources also in the article are either unreliable or do not significantly cover the subject to prove notability, couldn't find reliable sources either

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