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Hi, all @Conlinp, Greenman, and Discott: I please need ALL of your help to complete the article and update the provincial legislature articles. You can make a diagram of the seating composition here, and if you don't know where the colours are, they are here. Lefcentreright (talk) 16:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gauteng Legislature updated. May want to check. Conlinp (talk) 18:03, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Conlinp: Thank you. It looks great. I appreciate the help a lot. Lefcentreright (talk) 18:59, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am also going to ping @Htonl: to ask if he could create an election map or two like he has done on other election article pages(?).--Discott (talk) 19:03, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently recovering from the effort of fighting the election. :) But yes, I do plan to produce maps as I did for the previous ones. Unfortunately given my position I can't really help otherwise with the writing of the article. - htonl (talk) 19:30, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lefcentreright: Can you check KwaZulu-Natal Legislature. Can't find my error, Election, table summary? Conlinp (talk) 19:57, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Conlinp: Fixed it! Lefcentreright (talk) 20:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks htonl, really appreciate that. It will add a great deal to the article.--Discott (talk) 20:37, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lefcentreright: Mpumalanga Legislature updated. Please check my work. Conlinp (talk) 12:02, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lefcentreright: Limpopo Legislature updated. Please check my work. Conlinp (talk) 12:29, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lefcentreright: North West Legislature updated. Please check my work. Conlinp (talk) 12:45, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, all @Conlinp, Greenman, and Discott:. Hope you are all doing well. I need your help with creating an "Aftermath" section on the 2019 South African general election article. The National Assembly and NCOP articles also need to be updated. I've covered (most of) the provincial legislatures and premiers. It would be nice if all of the premier articles could have an image. Only three have: Alan Winde, David Makhura and Sihle Zikalala. Hope you all can help. Have a lovely evening. Lefcentreright (talk) 16:40, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Infobox template[edit]

A user has changed the template using as a justification a discussion in 2024 South African general election

If you want to change the infobox template in this page you should open a discussion in this page Troopasturbador (talk) 12:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

EC-protected two days[edit]

To stop ongoing edit war. Please discuss here rather than continuing to revert. Valereee (talk) 15:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

reverts[edit]

Alastair Alan Percy Warner, LilianaUwU, please come in here and discuss rather than continuing to revert.

AAPW, I don't see that you've ever edited at SA elections. How did you end up here? Valereee (talk) 11:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know whether it was a proper idea to revert since what I did revert from that user was restoring an IP who was threatening an admin, hence my doubt on those pages. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 16:10, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am involved in various election pages as I often have access to breaking information (I mostly did this before establishing a wikipedia account, which I did as a result of the new format settings). This is related to the general conduct of a specific user who engages in prolific vandalism of pages relating to modern and historical elections by removing information from wikiboxes to fit their own (publically self-declared might I add) aesthetic preferences. You can see that they have done so across all post-apartheid era South Africa elections (bar the most recent, which they are contending as a justification to retroactively do so). The issue is that as you have mentioned the user involved is an admin, so engages in regular BRD abuse (edit ninja'ing to be precise) with the backing of moderation. I was merely restoring the status of the page before this cross-page vandalism took place. Alastair Alan Percy Warner (talk) 16:12, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]