Hi Asaf,
Unfortunately, I don't have a save text of the article I wrote for Michael Aboya and no I wasn't paid to edit that article, I made a judgement of notability from what I saw about him online.
Also, I made sure everything I wrote was from a neutral point of view, I sent it to a few experienced editors in our community to check my text if I had missed something and from the response, I got it wasn't promotional. For Michael Aboya I found so many articles from secondary sources speaking about him but it still got deleted because to those editors he should have done something major. He won a global photography competition so I thought that is something noteworthy to write about.
I would be glad to get a refresher on NPOV but a lot of the times it has more to do with Notability and how to determine it within the several contexts.
Regards, Justice.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:57 PM Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
As the article has already been deleted, I can't see and judge for myself. But there was mention of promotional language in the discussion about Michael Aboya, at least. Was there indeed promotional language? If so, how come? I know for a fact you know how to write NPOV text, because I remember personally demonstrating it in Ghana, with you in the room. Was indeed a paid editing job? Did you not notice you were using non-NPOV language?
(If it's the latter, I am happy to offer a call where we can go over this again -- perhaps even fix the article, if you have a saved copy -- to make sure future efforts of yours don't end up with text that is encyclopedically unacceptable.)
I'm interested in helping resolve this. Obviously, resolving this can't require breaking Wikipedia's rules, though.
Cheers,
A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:00 PM Justice Okai-Allotey < owulakpakpo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I started a conversation on our Telegram chat group about getting my articles (User:Owula kpakpo) tagged for deletion by one editor ( User:Versace1608 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Versace1608) and other editors like (User:Kwamevaughan) also expressed same sentiments about getting articles his written tagged for deletion.
In other to settle this and get a community response to such issues in the future and how we can settle issues of notability criteria within our contest as Ghanaians. Another volunteer (User:Enock4seth) asked that it be shared here so we can properly document such discussions for later.
Find links to the various articles under scrutiny below. Also, feel free to add any further information to this discussion so we can properly deal with it moving forward.
Regards, Justice.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Draft:B4bo... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Draft:B4bonah [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Ghana [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Camidoh [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Aboya
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