Heya Oral
I third both Florence and Douglas, this is not the time to delete, but to improve. Perhaps
there can be a Wiki Meetup where the Ghana Usergroup works on sorting out those articles
that have been flagged that relate to Ghana. Good thing to do with pizza!
warmest
Isla
On 23 Mar 2015, at 10:49, Douglas Scott
<douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Oral Ofori,
I think Florence's suggestion is the best. The deletion option seems to me to be a
bit extreme and unnecessary. Re-writing the existing article so that it better
comply's with Wikipedia guidelines should always be the first thing to try.
Cheers,
Douglas.
On 23 March 2015 at 10:02, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org
<mailto: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
<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 <tel:%2B12027069881>
www.about.me/OralOfori <http://www.about.me/OralOfori>
On Mar 9, 2015 4:39 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <oralofori(a)gmail.com
<mailto: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(a)anthere.org
<mailto: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,
Oral
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 <tel:%2B12027069881>
www.about.me/OralOfori <http://www.about.me/OralOfori>
On Mar 9, 2015 2:19 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere(a)anthere.org
<mailto:anthere@anthere.org>> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Dawuni
<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(a)anthere.org
<mailto: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(a)anthere.org
<mailto:anthere@anthere.org>> wrote:
> Le 06/03/15 19:41, Florence Devouard a écrit :
> Le 06/03/15 19:09, rupert THURNER a écrit :
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Also of interest in the conversation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noti…
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=650110340#Copyvio_-_removal_of_tags_by_Spearmind>
>
>
> 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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