Hi, there. I'm Lefcentreright and welcome to my user page. My username refers to the left-right political spectrum. I love politics, much to the dismay of the people around me. I was born in Cape Town and currently reside in Paarl. My mother tongue or moedertaal is Afrikaans but I can also understand/speak English very well. I became a Wikipedia contributor in June 2017 with Ourcountry.ourfuture as my initial account. Due to me forgetting the password and not being able to recover it, I had to make this account.
My interests include South African politics, African politics, British politics, American politics, Canadian politics, Israeli politics, Irish politics, history, philosophy, and golf. I find South African politics intriguing. Note that I am not a member of any South African political party. I want to be independent, so that my work here on Wikipedia is unbiased, truthful and not just slanted towards a specific point of view or ideology.
I am a new page reviewer and regularly patrol the Special:NewPagesFeed (both articles and drafts). I am also a pending changes reviewer. Now and again, I will go and !vote at an AfD. On 17 November 2019, I was named Editor of the Week. This was the description: Tireless effort on behalf of South African political articles. Writes and sources above average. A pleasure to interact with. Alwys thankful for assistance. Excellent contributions. Loves politics but remains nonpartisan when editing and contributing. Thanks Girth Summit!
I am also active on a lot of smaller wikis. I am an administrator on the Afrikaans Wikipedia, helping to patrol the recent changes and fight vandalism. It's still small enough for me to review all the edits made by IPs, vandals, etc. I sometimes lend a hand at the Xhosa and Zulu Wikipedias since I can speak a bit of isiXhosa and isiZulu.
I strive for WP:Neutrality and WP:Verifiability. Wikipedia has a vital role and it would be heartbreaking for it to become a promotional website filled with PR nonsense. I detest paid editing in its entirety and nothing irritates me more than when I encounter an article written to be a puff piece. Paid editors and their clients must voetsek off of Wikipedia.
I'm currently a matric student so I have very limited time. I may not be able to immediately reply to you on my talk page or take a few hours to reply to a ping message. I mainly edit on the weekend and some weeknights.
I would like to thank you for the work you have done on South African political topics generally and the 2019 South African general election article in particular.--Discott (talk) 20:55, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
this WikiAward was given to Leftcentreright by Discott (talk) 20:55, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Keep contributing. Cheers. DreamSparrowChat 03:55, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Nice job on your work with South African politics. Keep it up! LefcentrerightCantabrucuSpecial:Contributions/Lefcentreright 17:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
Just looked at your user page and saw how much effort you're putting into creating content on South African politics - great work, I'm sincerely impressed. GirthSummit (blether) 20:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Simply for making my day!Niggle1892 (talk) 15:17, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
South African politics
Thank you for quality articles around South Africa, such as Naledi Pandor and Wynand Boshoff, for appreciation of the work of colleagues, for nominating and updating for In the news such as Bavelile Hlongwa, for "I try to be as nonpartisan as possible", - Jan-Hendrik, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2296 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:18, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Rainbow South African
This award is given to incredible South Africans who have demonstrated a deep love for our country through their contributions to the South African Wikipedia portal. You are doing an incredible job and I wish to recognize you on behalf of all South Africans. Thabang Matona (talk) 02:23, 8 June 2021 (UTC)