User talk:Zaian

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Contents 1 Archiving 2 Table Mountain 3 Back in South Africa 4 Scouting Barnstar 5 Your vote please 6 PW Botha defence and prime minister source 7 GA 8 Buffalo 9 Did you know? 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Bronzewolf.gif

[edit] Archiving

• Talk archive 01 (December 2005 - July 2006)

[edit] Table Mountain

Regarding the cableway, it can definitely be expanded, and when that occurs it should be broken out again as a separate article. The reason I merged it was because for the time-being it is short enough (and more importantly contextual enough) to wholly belong to Table Mountain. As for the hiking info, I'm not sure that Hiking on Table Mountain would pass muster. I'm purely arguing in terms of policy and guidelines here, not trying to be difficult, but I think somewhere on WP:NOT would be something along the lines of "Wikipedia is not a how-to guide" or something similar. Factual information (e.g. geographic description) about the trails themselves is obviously merited, particularly if there are good references. We may disagree on whether it belongs here or not, but it definitely also belongs on Wikitravel. If you have the inclination to do so please put it there. While I'm on about references, I haven't had much luck (or maybe I haven't looked hard enough) finding references for much of the stuff written in the article (e.g. History, Flora, Fauna sections etc.), if you know of any then please cite them as well, it would add to the quality of the article. I keep comparing this to Mount St. Helens, Tabel Mountain is worthy of a featured article but it needs to be expanded and referenced. Cheers. Zunaid 14:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Back in South Africa

Hi, get iBurst or myWireless from Sentech.. Cheers, Gregorydavid 11:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting Barnstar

- A hearty thank you for your steadfast, tireless, and quality contributions to Scouting articles. Rlevse 01:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your vote please

Hi Zaian - Please vote on the proposed name change of the 'South African farmer murders' page. The straw poll is here. Please also pass this message on to others you think would be interested. Thank you! Cheers, Jason Lionchow - Talk 08:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PW Botha defence and prime minister source

Hi. My source is a December 1979 U.S. Intelligence paper, which obviously does not say how long he kept both jobs: paragraph 12 of [1]. Preceding paragraphs would also probably interest you - the very brief nuclear weapon info in the PW Botha article isn't entirely accurate, but give a reasonable flavour. Rwendland 10:06, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the article. This BBC article [2] confirms Malan as defence minister from 1980-1991. Rwendland

[edit] GA

Jediwannabe nominated South_African_Scout_Association at WP:GAC. It's in dire need of more refs. Rlevse 20:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

This article was put on hold. The issues on the talk page look lengthy but aren't that bad. With a tad of work, it'll be GA. Rlevse 04:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buffalo

I moved the paragraph because it made more sense having it right next to the picture of the buffalo. :-)

I don't oppose moving it back, but I think it makers sense next to the photo. Thanks for yopur note. --evrik ^(talk) 14:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

On 21 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article fly-whisk, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 14:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bronzewolf.gif

{| align="center" style="background-color: white; border:8px solid red; padding:5px; text-align: center; font-size: larger;" | |This file may be deleted. |} Thanks for uploading Image:Bronzewolf.gif. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Oden 05:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Zaian: This guy tagged two of your images in the BW article. Use something like this for the rationales )this is BSA specific):

It is believed this image is eligible to be used under fair use for the following reasons:

1. Permission to use all images of BSA badges with their motifs in Wikipedia was obtained from BSA on 13 Dec 2005. Badge, rank, insignia images are reproduced with permission of the Boy Scouts of America.
2. This is copyrighted material of the BSA. All rights are reserved by BSA.
3. BSA images is only being used in Wikipedia articles for informational and educational purposes.
4. The image's inclusion here will not result in financial loss to the copyright holder.

Hope it helps. Rlevse 08:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the image was uploaded before May 4, 2006 so I removed the no rationale tag. However, it would still be a good idea anyway to add a fair use rationale. --Oden 10:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)