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I've moved your page Stuart cloete to the page Stuart Cloete, Wikipedia isn't very good at directing links to pages with alternate capitalisations, but now all the internal links should point in the right places. Hope you stay at wikipedia and keep up the good work; if you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Inner Earth 21:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

The move was no problem, and the article itself looks great - it's really nice to see a complete, well researched and well referenced article appearing as if out of nowhere. I've written nothing so substantial since i've been here, but seem to spend plenty of time checking and fixing my own typographical errors! Inner Earth 22:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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I moved the Comfort and Joy pages again from (1984 movie) and (2003 movie) to (1984 film) and (2003 film) in accorandance with WP:Films' naming conventions. Movie is no longer used in the title, as we have switched over to using film to keep it uniform. I already fixed all the redirects and everything, so in the future use the film instead of movie in the title. Keep up the good work and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 21:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for uploading your photo of Mageu! It really helps bring the article to life, and it's always good to have more free photos here on Wikipedia. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 17:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you, sorry for late reply, don't usually use my named account unless I have to so I didn't notice this till now. Don't suppose you know if there are any legal issues re the fact the photo is of a branded product? 137.215.9.20 (talk) 16:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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Please note that Wikipedia does not currently have categories named Category:Regional Routes in North West or Category:Regional Routes in Free State; rather, the categories are located at Category:Regional Routes in North West (South African province) and Category:Regional Routes in the Free State (South African province).

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Just a followup, because I think you might have misinterpreted what I was saying earlier: the extra disambiguator "(South African province)" is only present in the categories for North West and the Free State, and is not in the categories for Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, etc. If you look at Category:Regional Routes in South Africa, you can see what names are actually being used for each category — but for all of them you need to use the name that the category is actually located at. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 04:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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Road pages

Please provide sources when creating pages. Eeekster (talk) 21:12, 27 April 2013 (UTC) I've asked about this. If you come up a way of referencing Google Maps / Shell Road Atlas (especially the former) please do. Garble (talk) 21:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC) (Plus most of the existing South African routes pages don't have sources, I'm guessing their creators faced a similar dilemma.)

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it's → its

Thanks for your road edits. Please note the following: "It's southern terminus..." means "It is southern terminus...". The correct grammar is: Its southern terminus. Thanks. -LilHelpa (talk) 20:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC) I know that: it's a common typo though and not done deliberately. Garble (talk) 09:40, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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