User talk:Elf-friend/Archive 1
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Hello Elf-friend, welcome to Wikipedia. I just noticed your recent edits to various South African topics. As you can see, there is plenty to do here.
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Hi Elf-friend - since you seem to be adding articles about South African military subjects, I wonder if you'd help Wikiproject:Aircraft out with one on the Atlas Cheetah? --Rlandmann 21:54, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Agree that the material under Mirage III should be moved out... I actually want to do the same for the IAI Kfir info that's still stuck in that article too.... Cheers --Rlandmann 22:55, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi again - lots more choppers :) Just a small request for help - when you add a new aircraft, could you please make sure it gets included on the list of aircraft if it's not already? Makes it a lot easier for everyone to keep track of where we're up to! Thanks --Rlandmann 21:54, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Elf-friend - help ! I notice there are two pages on king Cetshwayo, (which I believe is the correct spelling) - but I have discovered Cetewayo, which you have contributed to. Can you merge the two pages, under Cetshwayo? I do not know enough about wikipedia to do it without breaking things.
If you need fixups after the merge, let me know.
You write :- I have a suspicion that the other spellings may be more archaic. I believe you are right - these are turn-of-the-century spellings. I do not know where 168.209.98.35 got the original copy for Cetewayo page from, but it looks quite 'scholarly'. Maybe the spelling points to it being past copyright protection - but maybe I am being uncharitable and it is original work. It is a nice page. I am British, living in SA for last 5 years, but very interested in Zulu history, and have been working on those pages. Thanks for your help - looks great now. Wikiwizzy
Elf-friend - help needed again ! This time a bit more difficult - we need to merge Zulu War and Anglo-Zulu War. I prefer the latter. What should I do ? Shall I stick stuff not mentioned in Anglo-Zulu War but mentioned in Zulu War back into Zulu War ? Histories ? Wikiwizzy
OK - I am going to try to do this myself - as per Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles - wish me luck ! Wikiwizzy
Elf-friend - Finished the Anglo-Zulu War merge, thanks, and put in a redirect. I am afraid I do not know any more than you do about early Zulu kings. Wikiwizzy
I find that http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/anglo-zulu-war.html is identical to Anglo-Zulu War - is this a copyvio, or the reverse ? There is a tell-tale mis-spelling of Mpande as Panda.
The encyclopedia4u site is a copy from Wikipedia I am still very new at wikipedia. I am planning on doing the same - but complete duplicates, put down in South African computer labs - just because you can .. you can see more about the project at Wizzy Digital Courier. So - we copy because we cannot be online all the time. I plan on taking snapshots during holidays, currently running just over 220Mbytes compressed.