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Heh

My mistake. I often miss obvious sarcasm. Cool Hand Luke 05:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

3RR report

I think I added in the times now. GreenJoe 18:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Zimbabwe

Fix it if it's ungrammatical. There is nothing speculative in it. Ark La 20:30, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

CITET formatting

It seems to me that the cite templates are a lot easier to maintain when each parameter is on a separate line: it also make it easier to read, since the beginning and ending of the template are very clear.--SarekOfVulcan 18:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Ethiopian Civil War

Sorry, I don't know anything about it (I mostly know about music and cuisine). Badagnani 03:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

External links

Hi, please see Misplaced Pages:External links#External links section with regards to singular vs. plural. Picaroon (t) 21:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Robert Mugabe

Hello,

why nonsense ? Robert Mugabe is the leader of an awovedly racist regime. Unless you think anti-white racism isn't racism.You have no need to be arrogant. Thanks. Wedineinheck 07:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

And who are you supposed to be, to address me like that, may I ask ? Instead of politely writing me, you start by accusing me of writing nonsense. Thereby, I have every right of considering you as arrogant and that you use personal attacks. Wedineinheck 07:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Wedineinheck

When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:uw-test1}} instead of {{uw-test1}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. nat 08:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wedinheick

Thanks for the response. I find I disagree with your assessment of the situation. In my view his repeated personal attacks - that I am an "arrogant," "obnoxious," "cry-baby" fall into the realm of unacceptable behavior. As he has continued to make such comments after repeated warnings from Nat and myself I find that his actions merit a block. He seems to believe his behavior is... tolerable. I hope you do not. Perspicacite 09:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for messaging me.

I agree Wedineinheck's reactions aren't helping at all, and suggest Wedineinheck has a problem with perspective (perhaps partially because they may be too new here to know what to expect).

But calling good faith (albeit crummy) edits "vandalism" appears to be what set Wedineinheck off on this trajectory. Your 2nd warning starts out good, but then quickly puts this user on the defensive.

I can't insist this wouldn't have happened if you WP:AGF'ed and patiently explained what Wedineinheck did wrong. But Wedineinheck seems to believe they've been unfairly persecuted.

For what it's worth, I've probably done this to new editors as well. It's something to look out for. / edg ☺ ★ 09:32, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Revamp

Just to let you know, I have completely revamped the WikiProject Zimbabwe page so that it is more uniform to the layout and design of other WikiProjects. Please have a look and try to fill in any of the new sections created. Your help is much appreciated. Many thanks, Mangwanani 17:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit
		Mangwanani presents the Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit to Perspicacite for his constant dedicated contributions to Zimbabwe-related articles. Many thanks for all your hard work Awarded for contribution to WP:ZIM by Mangwanani 15:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Not a problem. It is well deserved. I have been spending more time trying to get WikiProject Zimbabwe to the same stantard as the other more developed WikiProjects. This includes the Categories, Subcategories, Sub pages to the project etc. This has taken over me doing edits but I would like to get it as "complete" as possible. I am thinking of starting a Sub-WikiProject for Harare. Any thoughts? As you may have noticed, I have changed the {{WikiProject Zimbabwe}} template so that it now incorporates ratings. This was mainly done so that we, as the editors, can identify articles which need work and how urgent that work needs doing. I have started going through the list of articles in the Category:WikiProject Articles and any help in doing this large task is much appreciated. For any future articles you may write, you may also like to know, if you don't already, that I have also created an abbreviated version of the said template. It can be found here {{WPZW}}. Once again, many thanks in your continuing contributions Mangwanani 15:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Edit warring on Zimbabwe

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Zimbabwe. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. --John 20:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

"The core content is fine. The only reason we've been reverting you, as we already stated, is because of how sloppy and ungrammatical the content is. If you fix the grammar there would not be a problem." Next time just fix the grammar and we won't have to have all this hassle!--John 01:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Harnessing Misplaced Pages

That's the problem I have the idea, but currently lack the means. It does not make sense that with all the technology life expectancy in Zimbabwe for females and males is 24 and 37 respectively. Not forgetting the record inflation, food shortages and collapse of the health system. We now live in a multipolar world where ordinary humans have the power to do something. Surely something can and should be done. I am working on it - thinking of a way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Part (talk • contribs) 10:41, August 29, 2007 (UTC) PS. I have left our message to the father of Misplaced Pages user:Jimbo Wales. Part 10:57, 29 August 2007 (UTC)