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And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's happening...
-Masssly
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com </div><div>Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org </div><div>Cc: Wikimedia-gh Wikimedia-gh@lists.wikimedia.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles </div><div> </div>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@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@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@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@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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Oh you gotta be kidding me, who deleted Rocky Dawuni's Wiki article? He sent emails to Creative Commons and copied me on them to get the photos used approved on copyright grounds and Rupert is even aware of the above. All the sources in the article itself were verified too.
Is someone starting a war, do they wanna play the "article deleting game"? I want an explanation for why article of Rocky Dawuni's and that of Dr. Thomas Mensah was deleted or I will go in and start deleting random high profile articles myself too just for the heck of it!
I'll start in the next 12hrs and my name and number is below this email so I'll not be hiding myself when that happens. Who is that shameless and faceless one doing this?
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And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's happening...
-Masssly
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-------- Original message -------- From: Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00) To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians < african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia-gh Wikimedia-gh@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles
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@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@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@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@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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