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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 18:01 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori <oralofori@gmail.com> wrote:

Come on Rupert, u want me to send you a list of ridiculous articles that have been sitting on Wikipedia for years despite how badly they are written, the poor taste of photos used and the sheer playfulness of their composition?

This is an attack, plain and simple to me. What was the issue with the Rocky Dawuni article anyway, why was that deleted and were any lies said about Thomas Mensah and Patrick Awuah in their respective articles too?

Am so done for right now guys, this is just too distasteful and very...




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On Mar 6, 2015 12:50 PM, "rupert THURNER" <rupert.thurner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Rex, if you try to do a couple of weeks admin work i e checking additions to articles, improving them or only mark them so the author improves them. it might give you a better feeling how hard it can be to follow up on compliance with the various rules. I bet that after a certain number of cases you d get a little cold hearted as well. But I can understand your feelings very well,  I cannot even remember how many articles I created which got deleted because of not being long enough or failing some hidden relevance criteria.

Best,
Rupert

On Mar 6, 2015 11:34 AM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah @massly the admins are deleting all my articles.

@all
Even if the article has copyright violations in them, an admin's joy of deleting articles instead of improving them is basically problematic for me.

I'm sure after deleting potential articles, they go to bed feeling, 'Oh yeah, I cleaned Wikipedia today. All articles that have slight copyright violations, I cleared them all. What a good admin I am.'

Then the following morning, the admin wakes up and finds stats about contributions from Africa and it goes like: "Oh dang! Africans dont contribute to Wikipedia at all. I wonder what they do with their time. Even this man, Patrick Awuah who's well known and the founder of Ashesi University, and Rocky dawuni who's a rock star even is not on Wikipedia. No way, Africans! You're not pulling your weight."

Then I look at the admin from above and say, 'sheesh, this is unfair!"

If admin's first priority is deleting potentially good articles, then I wonder where the "assume good faith" begins and ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#Good_faith_and_copyright

I know there's another policy on Wikipedia hiding somewhere that conflicts equally the link above.

Happy Independence day to all Ghanaians, and admins deleting my articles relating to Ghana from wherever they are.


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 08:53 masssly <masssly@ymail.com> wrote:
@Rexford

And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's happening... 

-Masssly 

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-------- Original message --------
From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00)
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

And those elephants, instead of spending time chasing the not so good articles and high level crappy images on Wikipedia, they rather go on easy prey and articles relating to celebs not well known, of course because persons like myself are toothless and won't have anything to do.

Something I always envisioned happening as long as the whole of Africa has no Wikipedia admin to turn around decisions like these.

You know, its hard to think Africanish, if you weren't born as one.

Those elephants are interested in the unnecessaries and instead take fun in deleting articles with so much potential


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:08 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:

Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right?

On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> 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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