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Mike, may I be the first to welcome to Wikipedia!

Some links for you, some of which you might put on your watchlist :-

Regarding the Cape Argus, I suggest you Be Bold and take a stab at fixing it yourself, I doubt anyone will object, especially as you have stated your intentions on the Talk page. You might also check Media in South Africa as well. Questions? Feel free to ask on my Talk page. Again, Welcome! Wizzy…☎ 21:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure that the Argus staff are the right people to fix it. Wikipedia has got as far as it has because you and I can just pitch in. There is an attitude among veteran wikipedia contributors that it is better just to fix it (I will now) that to waste effort and hot air on talk pages (like I am doing :-). We love new contributors - there is a community of South African editors ( User:Jcw69 and User:Elf-friend come to mind). Find something you care about, look for a page on it already, ot write one yourself. I spend spare time geo-tagging places around africa, so you can get straight to a google maps satellite picture of Victoria Falls (say). Check my contributions - you could do the same. There is a low barrier to entry. Wizzy…☎ 07:03, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your philosophy is the one I usually follow myself but I felt that a newspaper might have an interest in its own wikipedia image and might want to take a look if nothing else and add any missing information about the newspaper themselves to their main entry (if there is one). Personally, I think that the best authority on any entity is that entity itself, although that doesn't by any means guarantee an accurate article and an unbiased one even less. Mike hayes 17:41, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

French convention

Mike, you ought to know that, though the English convention is Marquis of Lafayette, the French convention is marquis de Lafayette. Capitalizing in French looks as odd as failing to capitalize Kapital in German. Just a thing to know. --Wetman 16:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but the article is in English, not French ... I had not wanted to change the "de" to "of" so that readers who don't know French could still understand the derivation of the culinary term "duxelles" ... I have resolved the problem by putting the French in parentheses ... (in the interests of clarity rather than brevity) Nevertheless, the convention, in English, seems to be to capitalize "marquis" even when the French "de" is not translated if the following wiki link is any indication: [1] --Mike hayes 20:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Yes, but the article is in English, not French ... I had not wanted to change the "de" to "of" so that readers who don't know French could still understand the derivation of the culinary term "duxelles"  ... I have resolved the problem by putting the French in parentheses ... (in the interests of clarity rather than brevity) Nevertheless, the convention, in English, seems to be to capitalize "marquis" even when the French "de" is not translated if the following wiki link is any indication: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_(disambiguation)] --[[User:Mike hayes|Mike hayes]] 20:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
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