Now if you Google Thomas Mensah, the first top 5 options the search will yield has Wikipedia at the lead and when you click on that Wikipedia option this is what you find as displayed in the screenshot attached.
The contents of that picture attached from a Google search is truly damaging to the image of the man even though it is meant for the author/s of that wiki piece. The man's name is boldly there and I worry because I called him up personally to get some info to help improve on the piece when it was first started as I liked the piece and felt I could help improve it by getting info from the subject himself.
My beef is still same, if we don't want to delete it then let's take it totally offline till it's repaired so it doesn't appear in wiki/Google search engine, or else some policy will have to change about how copyvio/core tags are placed on articles so as to protect the image of the individuals/subjects such articles are about because when the non-wiki public sees what is up now, they don't think about the author/s, they rather think about Wikipedia and the subject of the persons involved since their names still remain without a single text of their actual articles.
Browse to the page again now and see for yourselves my friends. I doubt I've ever seen any such tag anywhere on Wikipedia before.
Oral
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On Mar 23, 2015 4:06 AM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:
Le 22/03/15 20:22, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit :
I will like to ask your help in beginning proceedings to have the wiki article of Dr. Thomas Mensah totally deleted from Wikipedia and done as soon as possible.
This is because the page still comes up whenever you browse his name and it has that copyright tag there but displays nothing whatsover of his biography and achievements. Since Wikipedia is not displaying the bio of his work and achievements then I will ask that it deletes the page completely and his name off their servers as well because that tag implicating copyright issues is in itself defamatory to his character as a highly respected member of the global academic and scientific society.
If any one has an address to forward this request to then that will be greatly appreciated, else I say we do what we can as soon as we possibly can to see to the complete removal of Dr. Thomas Mensah from Wikipedia if they do not want his article there, rather than keep his name there and that of Rocky Dawuni under such defamatory circumstances.
I am open to whatever ideas anyone might have in seeing to the resolution of the above because Wikipedia or some editors there said it was going to take a week to resolve since the above page a were tagged for deletion on March 6, 2015 and it's been almost half a month now and they have not been completely removed: I speak as a concerned Ghanaian on this matter.
Hello
Here is the route I recommand to fix that issue.
1) go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Mensah
2) rework the original article here, without any copyvio in there
There are two routes to do this
- the easiest (but less satisfactory) one: draft a short and clean version of the article, putting in there only non copyrighted content
- the longest (but more satisfactory) one: rewrite the current article (rephrase any sentence that was purely copy pasted from the original website)
3) contact an admin (or typically the guy who blanked the article and put the copyvio tag) and ask him if he is happy with new version
4) if no answer within a week, ask another admin to review the new version. Wait a week again
5) if no answer or if positive answer, copy the reworked text in the talk page in the article space
6) pray (or any appropriate gesture of self confort for you)
Ant
Thank you,
Oral Ofori
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori
On Mar 9, 2015 4:39 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <oralofori@gmail.com> wrote:
Lol, no thats not what the message was shooting for, mistyped that there and thanks for efforts. Shirts about to get wet here :-)
On Mar 9, 2015 4:26 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:
Excuse me ?
So... you suggest that *I* do the clean-up of the article to remove the copyvios that *YOU* guys added in it... and *THEN* hand it to you to improve ?
Or do you suggest that *I* go around look for some editors to improve the article ?
This is not what is going to happen...
If YOU guys want this article to exist, wet your shirt ;)
Ant
Le 09/03/15 20:01, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit :
Ok Florence, let me know when that Rocky becomes a substantial non-cooyvio so I delve into it and add a few touches to beef it up while I cross my fingers for some hope about the Thomas Mensah one too.
Thanks,
OralJournalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori
On Mar 9, 2015 2:19 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Dawuni
That's temporary. I will redelete it afterwards.
Guys, if you want to recreate a new article using the non copyvio parts of this one, please do so in an intermediary space. Thanks
Ant
Le 09/03/15 09:45, rupert THURNER a écrit :
Hmmm.. I d love to have the history. It is not my text
Rupert
On Mar 8, 2015 7:44 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:
Hi
I copy pasted the entire text in my email two days ago Rupert...
You just need to copy paste it anywhere you feel it is best (online or not online).
Ant
Le 06/03/15 20:16, rupert THURNER a écrit :
Sure, if you could restore it, at least in my or Rex personal namespace...
On Mar 6, 2015 7:51 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:
Le 06/03/15 19:41, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Le 06/03/15 19:09, rupert THURNER a écrit :Also of interest in the conversation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=650110340#Copyvio_-_removal_of_tags_by_Spearmind
Yes please do send this list and try to improve them, and then tell me how pleasant this work was.
Contrary, for the rocky dawuni article I d be interested as well where the copyright infringement was. I do not like that without admin permission it is not possible to look this up...
Rupert
Otherwise... with a quick study of what is going on about the deletion spree, it seems that...
* in all articles, chunks are indeed copyvios. The chunks are smaller or bigger depending on each case.
* in many cases, the article is blanked in its entirety, then deleted.
Looks like it is a bit overkill to me. I see not why at least a stub could be kept.
Ant
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