Rebecca.colvin

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Welcome!!

Hi Rebecca! Thankyou for your new stubs on protected areas. Can you take some advice though. See how Léfini Faunal Reserve is formatted. Please make sure your new articles have categories like this. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 11:29, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I welcome you to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Protected areas task force a project I started tow years ago. We could sure use some active editors building content on here. Please respond to my messages Rebecca!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 11:39, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Speak to me!!! LOL. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:04, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Protected area stubs

Hello, and thanks for your excellent and extensive contributions. Two recommendations:

• please bold the name of the protected area in each article, and wikify a bit where possible, e.g. link the country name
• please add {{africa-protected-area-stub}} to the end

It's better to create better articles a bit more slowly than to create lots of incomplete ones quickly. I did the above two steps on several of your first articles: over to you. :-) Empty Buffer (talk) 13:35, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Why don't you respond to people who are doing their best to help you?? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Nimba Forest Reserve

Hello Rebecca. The name of the article seems to be incomplete or incorrect. Do you write about East Nimba Nature Reserve? See also Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve. Best. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 12:30, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ebo Wildlife Reserve

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Proposed deletion of Sankan Biriwa (Tingi Hills) No Or Non Hunting Forest Reserve

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Not yet?

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and good examples of article in the same category - as to why they are ok - they have project tags on the talk pages, they have categories SatuSuro 10:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Tanzania

Hi, thanks for all the articles you are creating on African reserves, it is really adding to the knowledge base. But please, although it's formal name is the United Republic of Tanzania, just calling it Tanzania will do. By the same reasoning the category most of these articles belongs to is Category:Protected areas of Tanzania not Category:Protected areas of the United Republic of Tanzania.

If you want to use the full name then in English grammar it's normal to use United Republic of Tanzania not Tanzania, United Republic of. NtheP (talk) 10:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Conversely, the category for the Central African Republic is at Category:Protected areas of the Central African Republic, not "Protected areas of Central African Republic". What's important to understand on Wikipedia is that articles are not allowed to sit around with categories on them that don't already exist — if you save an article and one or more of the category names appears in red, then you need to find out whether the category is named something else instead. You can't just leave it with a red category on it. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 08:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Digya National Park

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Proposed deletion of Beki Bosse Matie Classified Forest

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve

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