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Although some prefer welcoming new users with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.  

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This welcome message was sent by Sam Sing! 09:36, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Tell me a thing ...

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... are you doing a student project? I see 3 or 4 new articles on Cape Town/SA libraries popping up this morning. Best, Sam Sing! 09:42, 12 July 2014

Its a project to create pages for all libraries - academic and public - in Cape Town. Everybody involved is sitting at UCT Library at this moment, trying to figure out the details of how to create pages. You'll probably pick up some odd entries :-)--Sforsyth123 (talk) 10:04, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
see this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Western_Cape_Libraries_edit-a-thon
  Like. (You indent messages with an initial : (colon) when replying. Reply to a reply, like me here, uses two colons, and so forth. ; (semi-colon) on the other hand makes the whole paragraph bold. Confused? Don't worry!  ) Happy editing! Sam Sing! 10:56, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Fish Hoek Library for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fish Hoek Library is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish Hoek Library until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jac16888 Talk 12:16, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply