On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:12 Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org> wrote:

Dear Rexford

On 04.03.2015 20:23, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
> There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own
> policies.
>
> One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by
> someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't
> contest for its undeletion. Never!

OK, that's up to you but you can not complain then that people don't
listen to your point of view.

> I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion (
> see close to bottom of page)
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:     .jpg
> explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
>
> They are nominated for deletion.
>
> An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000
> views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds
> that make no sense.
>
> "Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
 >
> Just saying.
>
> Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance
> whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them
> without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines
> do those deletions instead of humans.
>
> Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird
> activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather
> bots and machines are taking over?

They were asked to be deleted by a real user: Yann, who is a more than
10 years old Wikimedian. If a few of the inserts on your talk page are
made by an IP, it's probably a computer error, Yann is behind this.

> I'm in flames here!

I understand, but the solution is to talk to him. You have done it two
hours ago and you will get an answer in the next days. But, as a
reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the
"photograph", not the subject who is photographed.

Emmanuel
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