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The new Mayor is Gary van Niekerk (NA) 196.45.26.164 ( talk) 09:08, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
@ Dylan Fourie: Your comments are aggressive and unwelcome. Telling people to " stick to editing stuff you know" because you can't find a proper source will just get you blocked. Experienced editors have tried to help you by pointing you to the guidelines on how to contribute constructively - I suggest you read them, including WP:AGF before making any more edits. You actually seemed to try to follow Toddy1's advice while telling them to stick what they know, but the improved source you added says, in the very first sentence "possibly leaving the city without a mayor", which is hardly definitive. I'll revert your changes until there's clarity. Greenman ( talk) 14:05, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Someone please add International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) of 'Gqeberha', so that we can know how to pronounce it in English. Ragnarvrollo ( talk) 06:02, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
{{IPAc-en|ɛə}}
produces
/ɛər/.
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talk) 13:36, 21 October 2023 (UTC)As the pronunciation of 'Gqeberha' is a bit peculiar for English speakers, I believe adding a Pronunciation Respelling Key would be more helpful. Ragnarvrollo ( talk) 05:40, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
The article states ' The city's name change was officially gazetted on 23 February 2021, although the new name remains poorly used locally as of 2023. '. Then why the name is changed to Gqeberha? Wikipedia policy is to use known names, not per se official names (eg. Turkey vs Türkiye). Uitenhage is a comparable example and is still named Uitenhage. I suggest a name chage to the dominant name: Port Elizabeth. Especially since the majority of the cities population is Afrikaans and English speaking. Wester ( talk) 22:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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I would like to edit this page because they did not write about public schools they only wrote about private only so I wanted to fix that but I can't because you closed it . 41.114.143.174 ( talk) 19:24, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Still, most English-speaking sources refer to the city as Port Elizabeth. Gqeberha is illegible in English. Because some RS also mention this new name just because it's the official one doesn't remove the fact that the most used name and found in English sources in English are Port Elizabeth (Google or Google Scholar sources) also notice that 75% of the population of Port Elizabeth are either Afrikaans or English speakers, and virtually most of them still using Port Elizabeth. Navarran94 ( talk) 02:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Why was the name changed in 2022 but the entire category tree left at Category:Port Elizabeth? This is in addition to many other articles such as Lorraine, Port Elizabeth, Timeline of Port Elizabeth and Metropolitan routes in Port Elizabeth left in place. AusLondonder ( talk) 12:09, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
An editor has deleted the section on the Apple Express as unsourced. [1] I considered restoring it, and adding citations from the article on the Apple Express, but there are significant differences between the deleted section and the Apple Express article. So what is needed is for someone to go through the sources used by Apple Express and see what they really do support.-- Toddy1 (talk) 06:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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The new Mayor is Gary van Niekerk (NA) 196.45.26.164 ( talk) 09:08, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
@ Dylan Fourie: Your comments are aggressive and unwelcome. Telling people to " stick to editing stuff you know" because you can't find a proper source will just get you blocked. Experienced editors have tried to help you by pointing you to the guidelines on how to contribute constructively - I suggest you read them, including WP:AGF before making any more edits. You actually seemed to try to follow Toddy1's advice while telling them to stick what they know, but the improved source you added says, in the very first sentence "possibly leaving the city without a mayor", which is hardly definitive. I'll revert your changes until there's clarity. Greenman ( talk) 14:05, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Someone please add International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) of 'Gqeberha', so that we can know how to pronounce it in English. Ragnarvrollo ( talk) 06:02, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
{{IPAc-en|ɛə}}
produces
/ɛər/.
Nardog (
talk) 13:36, 21 October 2023 (UTC)As the pronunciation of 'Gqeberha' is a bit peculiar for English speakers, I believe adding a Pronunciation Respelling Key would be more helpful. Ragnarvrollo ( talk) 05:40, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
The article states ' The city's name change was officially gazetted on 23 February 2021, although the new name remains poorly used locally as of 2023. '. Then why the name is changed to Gqeberha? Wikipedia policy is to use known names, not per se official names (eg. Turkey vs Türkiye). Uitenhage is a comparable example and is still named Uitenhage. I suggest a name chage to the dominant name: Port Elizabeth. Especially since the majority of the cities population is Afrikaans and English speaking. Wester ( talk) 22:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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I would like to edit this page because they did not write about public schools they only wrote about private only so I wanted to fix that but I can't because you closed it . 41.114.143.174 ( talk) 19:24, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Still, most English-speaking sources refer to the city as Port Elizabeth. Gqeberha is illegible in English. Because some RS also mention this new name just because it's the official one doesn't remove the fact that the most used name and found in English sources in English are Port Elizabeth (Google or Google Scholar sources) also notice that 75% of the population of Port Elizabeth are either Afrikaans or English speakers, and virtually most of them still using Port Elizabeth. Navarran94 ( talk) 02:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Why was the name changed in 2022 but the entire category tree left at Category:Port Elizabeth? This is in addition to many other articles such as Lorraine, Port Elizabeth, Timeline of Port Elizabeth and Metropolitan routes in Port Elizabeth left in place. AusLondonder ( talk) 12:09, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
An editor has deleted the section on the Apple Express as unsourced. [1] I considered restoring it, and adding citations from the article on the Apple Express, but there are significant differences between the deleted section and the Apple Express article. So what is needed is for someone to go through the sources used by Apple Express and see what they really do support.-- Toddy1 (talk) 06:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)