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Hi, it's great to see someone contributing to the Indigenous content here on Wikipedia. It's an area that is underdeveloped. Can I ask though if you can please add the source for the information you are adding. I see you are using the Visual Editor. If so, after you add some new information, could you click on Cite > Manual and then use Web, Book, etc as appropriate to provide the source information. If the source information isn't one of Web, Book, etc, then use Cite > Manual > Basic which gives you a text box and you can just write whatever you like there about where the information comes from. If you need help with citations (or anything else), just say so here. I will be happy to help. Kerry (talk) 00:04, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for your welcome, introduction and advice. I've spent the better part of today going over some of the initial links you posted, they were very useful, thank you. I can see that a lot of the Indigenous articles are very much just stubs, and are not very accurate as they are. I hope to change that, I own quite a lot of material (most of it out of copyright, so if you can explain how I could possible take photos to use in some of the articles, they would be much appreciated. I thought some of the original tables and maps might be useful - if this isn't right, please explain.) My goal really is to build Wikipedia's capacity to educate people on Indigenous people's and culture, a lot of the material is hard to access or not in print anymore, so making it available on Wikipedia (with citations) would be my ultimate goal.

I've just been adding citations to the Yugambeh language page. Would you mind telling me if they are satisfactory, or if not, what I could do to improve them BlackfullaLinguist (talk) 04:59, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

They are OK. Could be some improvement in the formatting, but the main thing is that there is enough information there to send a person looking for the source to the right place. You can use Cite > Reuse to make a 2nd/3rd use of the same source. You don't have to use the way of doing things. One thing that stands out is that for Australian content we use the date format "18 September 2017" not other variants. But here on Wikipedia, people "give" according to their abilities. Some are content writers (like me), others do maintenance tasks, etc. So long as you do your best with a citation, others will tidy up after you if they think it needed. Pretty clearly you are going to be a content writer so focus on good content and let formatting of citaitons be sorted out by those who enjoy that sort of thing. Kerry (talk) 05:24, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

As to photos, yes, if the original material is definitely out of copyright, you can take photos of tables and maps and we can upload them and use them in articles. Generally with books, they are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the author, although it can be different in other circumstances, e.g. a government publication. If you can get a scan or digital photo of such a table/map, I am happy to teach you the steps involved in uploading the photo and using it in an article. Kerry (talk) 05:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

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hi BlackfullaLinguist, a kitty for your additions to Yugambeh people, thankyou!

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Minor edits - some advice

I notice you mark many of your edits as minor which are probably not minor. A minor edit is one that changes the presentation of the information rather than its meaning. So spelling/grammar fixes, fiddling with formatting etc are minor, but adding/changing/deleting information is not minor. If in doubt, don't mark it as minor. A lot of vandals and other bad-faith contributors use the "minor" flag to try to fly under the radar of the page reviewers, so overusing "minor" especially when the edits aren't minor tends to attract suspicion. Kerry (talk) 00:32, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for that. My bad, I thought minor was for marking small edits. I'll put this into practise now. BlackfullaLinguist (talk) 01:37, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

No worries, I realised you probably didn't know that. Keep up the good work! Kerry (talk) 01:43, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Yugambeh-Bandjalangic peoples

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I have made suggested edits and added citations and the like on Zoroastrianism. Please let me know what you think now. Xhepablo (talk) 23:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi! Letting you know I've resolved the problems you mentioned in the article! Xhepablo (talk) 18:57, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

6 GAs as a first time reviewer

Hi there,

I spotted that the number of GA nominees under review had suddenly spiked upwards, and I see that is heavily because of you.

It's fantastic that you're taking on a GAR, but I'm worried that 6 at once might be too many given the need to do fairly in-depth reviews to check an article actually complies with various MOS and source-checking requirements - as well as the reading well aspect. There's a few good structures recommended - Talk:Prince (New Girl)/GA1 is quite common, I like tables so I went for Talk:Roman Tmetuchl/GA1 since it breaks it down nicely. Which set-up doesn't really matter, but it's helpful to show you've checked each of the good article criteria. Nosebagbear (talk) 20:48, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

• • As someone with a grand total of 2 GA reviews under my belt, I would agree that taking on 6 at one time does seem like a lot of work. Mujinga (talk) 14:40, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Social Centres in the United Kingdom

Hiya, it's been 7 days since you put the review of Social Centres in the United Kingdom on hold so I thought I'd drop you a line to say I've complied with what I thought you were asking me to do on the article and I'd be interested to hear the next steps. Since from the section above I see you have some other reviews also in motion I'd like to emphasise it's not superurgent or anything, but I'd just like to move things forward when you have the time. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 14:45, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Hiya, I replied to your further questions on August 11 so I'm waiting for a reply. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 15:54, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Hiya I'd be more than happy to continue the review with you but since nothing has happened since I replied to your questions on August 11, I've taken the step of requesting a new reviewer. If you want to come back as the new reviewer that would be great! Mujinga (talk) 11:21, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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Hi. With your addition to the clans in the Gubbi Gubbi article, I tried to find the citation to cite properly. I don't have access to Mathews (2007), but did see some of them in Mathews (1910), p. 129-30. Would you mind please clarifying by adding to what I have done there? I find it a bit confusing with so many spellings, and am not sure whether all of the ones above should be sourced to Tindale (I see some overlap with Mathews). Thanks! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:48, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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