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I’m translating your article into Polish and to do a good translation I need to verify the data and to quote reliable sources. You wrote that Gamtoos River is approximately 645 km long with a catchment area of 34,635 km². The Afrikaans language version of this article seems to state that the Gamtoos River is about 500 km long.

I couldn't find any information on the Gamtoos River in my Encyclopædia Universalis, but I found it here: eWISA - SOUTH AFRICAN RIVERS,eWISA Gamtoos RIVER: Overview.

It confirm yours data. Unfortunately I’m not able to evaluate if the eWISA is a reliable source. Some websites takes their data from Wikipedia and I prefer to avoid a feedback situation, so could you indicate what your source was, please?--Akramm1 (talk) 12:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• It was a long time ago since I created this post. At the time I was using mostly the Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa 5th Edition ISBN 0-947008-17-9, 1985 Jcw69 (talk) 10:31, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Jcw69. On behalf of the nonprofit organization African Parks via the Wyss Foundation, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I've submitted an expanded and updated draft of the Liwonde National Park article for consideration at Talk:Liwonde National Park. I am looking for someone to review this draft for accuracy and neutrality, and to copy over content appropriately as a replacement of the current article, which is almost entirely unsourced. You noted an interest in Africa at WikiProject Protected areas, so I thought I'd reach out to see if you are interested in taking a look at the proposed draft, since my requests for help at several WikiProjects have gone unanswered for a while now. Might you be willing to take a look at the draft? Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:39, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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At the beginning where it says digital strategist-there is a redlink due to an XFD. Mind removing the brackets? HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 21:43, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with the red link? Presumably a decent article could be written on the topic - it just wasn't the version that was deleted. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:31, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(non-admin closure) Redirected the article to Digital strategy to Digital marketing. That will fix the red link. Closing edit request - reopen if you have a problem with this. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 22:51, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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