On Mar 4, 2015 3:15 PM, "Ian Gilfillan" <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
wrote:
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(a)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(a)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…
> 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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