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(a)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(a)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(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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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!
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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>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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I think this is a serious. I never knew such things really happened. I'm annoyed at the fact that sometimes people just tag articles for deletion when it's still in development stages. I hope Wikipedia listens to Dennis Brown. Masssly when will you or Enock or Sandister become administrators. That should help us in the Ghana chapter. We can't just be shoved around like that. Please! Give me a break
