Hi Rex, if you try to do a couple of weeks admin work i e checking additions to articles, improving them or only mark them so the author improves them. it might give you a better feeling how hard it can be to follow up on compliance with the various rules. I bet that after a certain number of cases you d get a little cold hearted as well. But I can understand your feelings very well, I cannot even remember how many articles I created which got deleted because of not being long enough or failing some hidden relevance criteria.
Best, Rupert On Mar 6, 2015 11:34 AM, "Nkansah Rexford" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah @massly the admins are deleting all my articles. > > @all > Even if the article has copyright violations in them, an admin's joy of > deleting articles instead of improving them is basically problematic for > me. > > I'm sure after deleting potential articles, they go to bed feeling, 'Oh > yeah, I cleaned Wikipedia today. All articles that have slight copyright > violations, I cleared them all. What a good admin I am.' > > Then the following morning, the admin wakes up and finds stats about > contributions from Africa and it goes like: "Oh dang! Africans dont > contribute to Wikipedia at all. I wonder what they do with their time. Even > this man, Patrick Awuah who's well known and the founder of Ashesi > University, and Rocky dawuni who's a rock star even is not on Wikipedia. No > way, Africans! You're not pulling your weight." > > Then I look at the admin from above and say, 'sheesh, this is unfair!" > > If admin's first priority is deleting potentially good articles, then I > wonder where the "assume good faith" begins and ends. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#Good_faith_and_copyright > > I know there's another policy on Wikipedia hiding somewhere that conflicts > equally the link above. > > Happy Independence day to all Ghanaians, and admins deleting my articles > relating to Ghana from wherever they are. > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 08:53 masssly <[email protected]> wrote: > >> @Rexford >> >> And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's >> happening... >> >> -Masssly >> >> Sent from Samsung Mobile >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> >> Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00) >> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians@lists. >> wikimedia.org> >> Cc: Wikimedia-gh <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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" <[email protected]> >>> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 < >>>>> [email protected]> 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_Mara_Mentor.jpg >>>>>> 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! >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > >
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