In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates

The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html

That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.

It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues - it'll make future contributions much less painless.

ian

On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:

How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:

Is that one of your policies too !!!

I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> 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!

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:Peace_Hyde_Mara_Mentor.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?

I'm in flames here!

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