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{{helpme}} Hi, I just created the page Kotamobagu and there is an error message in the infobox. No matter what I tried it still appeared and I'm really not sure what's causing the error. I was just hoping someone could help resolve whatever the error is? :) JoshyDinda (talk) 19:07, 28 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

  Done, it didn't like you adding the Indonesia map, so I've just gotten rid of it, bit superflous anyway--Jac16888 Talk 19:12, 28 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much! JoshyDinda (talk) 19:17, 28 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Welcome! edit

 
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Welcome to Wikipedia, JoshyDinda! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! madkayaker (talk) 17:12, 29 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Another welcome edit

Hi Joshy. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Before getting involved with deletion issues, if you haven't already done so, you may wish to read WP:DELETION, WP:NPP, and in particular, WP:WPSCH. Happy editing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:10, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite edit

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:55, 20 October 2016 (UTC)Reply