Dewet

Due to pressing work concerns, I'm currently taking a wikibreak; I have no idea when I'll be able to contribute at full capacity again. Feel free to email me instead, since I'll only check my talk page every now and then.

With regards to Wikipedia, a few things you should know about me: I try to accommodate. I'm sure every personality type is represented here, and surely some people just aren't going to get along. I try to practice common courtesy, with Zen being the popular word to describe it; "Go with the flow". However, even the deepest river has a limit to how much crap it can flow over and still remain calm. But I do my best. I'm not perfect. If I've done something wrong or offended you, please let me know — I most likely didn't even realise what happened! I'm mostly a friendly chap. See WP:AGF and WP:BITE. I try to evoke discussion. I strongly believe in healty, vigorous debate as well as WP:CITE, so additions without motivation can sometimes be viewed under increased scrutiny, especially when I'm on patrol for vandalism. Without proper references and citations, there are times when it can be difficult to tell between fact and targetted vandalism, and then one tends to err on the side of caution. I tend towards inclusionism. There are no storage issues on Wikipedia, but I agree with WP:NOT and Wikipedia:Notability. Leave me a message | Send me an email Archives Oct 2004 – Mar 2005 Mar 2005 – May 2006 May 2005 – Jun 2006 Jun 2006 – Jul 2007 Jul 2007 – Aug 2008 Aug 2008 – Mar 2010 Stellenbosch to bid for Wikimania 2012! Hi de Wet! The nascent South African Wikimedia chapter has decided to bid to host Wikimania in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2012. This would be the first Wikimania in South Africa, and would be a great advertisement for our country. Please take a look at meta:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch. If you can add to the discussion, please do. If you feel that you are able to do anything to help, please join the Wikimedia South Africa mailing list and let us know. Even simple messages of support are valued! Best regards, David Richfield Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference Hello there. This is an automated message to tell you about the gradual phasing out of the preference entitled "Mark all edits minor by default", which you currently have (or very recently had) enabled. On 13 March 2011, this preference was hidden from the user preferences screen as part of efforts to prevent its accidental misuse (consensus discussion). This had the effect of locking users in to their existing preference, which, in your case, was true. To complete the process, your preference will automatically be changed to false in the next few days. This does not require any intervention on your part and you will still be able to manually mark your edits as being minor in the usual way. For established users such as yourself there is a workaround available involving custom JavaScript. With the script in place, you can continue with this functionality indefinitely (its use is governed by WP:MINOR). If you have any problems, feel free to drop me a note. Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 18:25, 15 March 2011 (UTC) Native Dutch Translator Required Hi, We are looking for the native expert translators to translate Our English website (around 20 pages) into Dutch Language. The content length for each of the pages would be varied from (60 - 250 words).Please reply us with price per word, language skills, Samples and time frame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.81.92 (talk) 07:02, 25 July 2011 (UTC) Nomination of Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein 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/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein 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 good 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 template from the top of the article. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 11:50, 26 July 2011 (UTC) Re:Dutch-to-English Re:Dutch-to-English I would be grateful if you could check quality of google translation (my understanding - National Bank of Belgium agreed to distribute images of the banknotes it has issued using the same rules as euro banknotes) - please reply on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:BEL-500f-rev.jpg Bulwersator (talk) 06:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC) Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa Dear WikiProject South Africa Wikipedians This is an urgent call from Wikimedia South Africa. We are currently working hard on the South African side of the exciting international photographic competition, Wiki Loves Monuments [1]. We have been planning to make this national competition really take off, but to do so, we need your help! The competition starts on the 1st September, and we need your help now! If you are interested in being part of or can help the Wiki Loves Monuments national organising team, then please join here [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_South_Africa]. If you have limited time, but want to help out at an upload marathon at a heritage site near you, please then contact either Lourie [louriepieterse@yahoo.com] or Isla [islahf@africacentre.net]. We look forward to hearing from you!" Kind regards, Lourie Sent by Lucia Bot in 13:57, 4 August 2012 (UTC) WP South Africa in the Signpost The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject South Africa for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 06:44, 23 March 2013 (UTC) Precious South African collaboration Thank you for quality articles, beginning with Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, for gnomish work for project South Africa, such as removing spam and redirects, for starting articles such as Black Economic Empowerment, Castle of Good Hope and Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 ("this is my first bach, please go easy"), - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 17 July 2015 (UTC) Oh wow, thank you very much :) I haven't been active in a very long time, but the gesture is appreciated! dewet|✉ 15:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC) Think of it as lifetime achievements. I am in the process of making some Bach works GA, and looked up the history. Did you see that Magnificat grew even in two of them, BWV 243a and 243 (only the first by me)? Four years ago, you were recipient no. 1272 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:29, 17 July 2019 (UTC) Attention User:TheBeastdot has created Wikipedia:List of missing Southern Africa topics. Please help by contributing. —Preceding undated comment added 19:44, 21 July 2016 (UTC) Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed Hello Dewet! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II talk 20:31, 14 December 2016 (UTC) Sorry I apologize I inadvertently sent a thank you in error. YborCityJohn (talk) 08:46, 20 December 2019 (UTC) Precious anniversary Precious Eight years! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 17 July 2023 (UTC)