Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-06 Thread TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 4, 2015 3:15 PM, Ian Gilfillan wikimedi...@greenman.co.za wrote: In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See

Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-04 Thread Nkansah Rexford
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 bobbyshaba...@gmail.com wrote: Is that one of your

Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-04 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement? But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the photograph, not the subject who is photographed. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:12 Emmanuel Engelhart kel...@kiwix.org wrote: Dear

Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-04 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Thanks Gilfillan for the email templates. The word-for-word reason on the Patrick awauh article, perhaps I'm the only one who cant count at least even 10 sentences matching word for word between the Wikipedia article and the biography page. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:15 Ian Gilfillan

Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-04 Thread Nkansah Rexford
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

Re: [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

2015-03-04 Thread bobby shabangu
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ?? Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the