[Wikipedia-l] copyvio on yoruba wikipedia?

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 18:03:05 UTC 2007


Hi all,

It seems that many of the pages on the Yoruba Wikipedia are directly
copied from a book, and on top of that, they appear to be
non-encyclopedic and religious in nature.

http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebowale
http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_lagba%3F
http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariigbodowi

Normally, of course, this sort of complaint belongs within the
administrative structure of the respective Wikipedia, but the current
active admin, http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Loadewole is actually
the one who created these pages. I wonder if something bigger should
be done?

Even pages which could possibly not be copyvio, such as
http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aajo_ewa , still appear to be on
religious dogma and are of questionable encyclopedic value.

Mark



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