Vicky Sutherland

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I have undone your edits on Bantu peoples in South Africa

I have undone your edits on Bantu peoples in South Africa. The content you added was moved there from other Wikipedia articles and removed the existing content, which is not available elsewhere on this wiki. Your changes were done without explanation, and I don't see why you think the new version might be better than the old. In addition, while you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. If you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:47, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017

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Thank you for your recent contributions to one or more of Wikipedia's South African related articles. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining the South Africa WikiProject? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's South Africa-related content. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project's talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! --Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Categories

Hello. You appear to have recently created a bunch of categories that duplicate existing ones, for instance Category:LGBT Artists from South Africa duplicates Category:LGBT artists from South Africa. Please be more careful when creating categories - have a look around the hierarchy to see what already exists. You should always categorise new categories in turn, so that they can be found by humans and are accessible to automated maintenance. You should also have a read of WP:Categorization as you appear not to understand how categories work, and you might be better off not working on them until you are more familiar with Wikipedia. In particular you should have a read of Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality - sexuality is a particularly sensitive subject for categorisation, and people should only be categorised as LGBT if there is suitable references to support it.Le Deluge (talk) 21:37, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Category:LGBT actors from South Africa has been nominated for discussion

Category:LGBT actors from South Africa, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:LGBT Celebrities from South Africa has been nominated for discussion

Category:LGBT Celebrities from South Africa, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 18:56, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:LGBT Culture in South Africa

Hello, Vicky Sutherland. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "LGBT Culture in South Africa".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 09:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)