M E Oettle

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Links to disambiguation pages in links

Thanks for your edits to Vehicle registration plates of South Africa, however it appears you have been removing parts of some of the detail in the links to place names eg changing Bathurst, Eastern Cape to Bathurst. This means that readers who want to know more about the specific location in the Eastern Cape are taken to a disambiguation page which is not helpful.— Rod ^talk 18:41, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Please do not remove the disambiguation from Wikilinks. This means that the link goes to a page listing all the uses of 'XXXX' instead of to the page for 'XXXX (location)'. 28 links had to be corrected. Please bear in mind for the future. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 04:32, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

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Your article Cornelius Kok II

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Although this page is mostly translated, there is some text needing translation. This was an automated message added by Twinkle when marking the article needing translation. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:11, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Cornelius Kok II

Hello, M E Oettle,

Thanks for creating Cornelius Kok II! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

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Boleyn (talk) 20:06, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

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