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Teehee. Well, I get to be your official welcomer. The generic stuff aside, glad to have you on board! Paddington sounds like a good start - I don't foresee great edit wars over it. Some other fairly easy (and usually low-wikistress) stuff would be articles on South African Geography. A pet project of mine has been South African rivers, although you might have access to some interesting information at your work on the agricultural side of things? South African History's also quite interesting to work with, as there's an awful lot not covered. I've found the TRC reports to be a veritable treasure trove of info for that. I'm currently slightly involved in a good article drive at Battle of Waterloo, if you want to give that a bash. Well, anyway... Good luck, and have fun. --
Kieran 22:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other stuff
OK, well the huge message above is a template I used, and it's occurred to me there are other things that could be of use to you. Check out the guide on creating footnotes (for references), and maybe have a glance at the Manual of Style. The latter is a fairly intimidating set of documents, but worth scanning, then referring back to later for specific issues. Oh, and above all, be bold! Since you have a reference for the Paddington info, you should put it straight into the article (with the reference, preferably). If the formatting is a little out, someone more experienced will most likely fix it. -Kieran 22:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
