Heya Oral I third both Florence and Douglas, this is not the time to delete, but to improve. Perhaps there can be a Wiki Meetup where the Ghana Usergroup works on sorting out those articles that have been flagged that relate to Ghana. Good thing to do with pizza!
warmest Isla > On 23 Mar 2015, at 10:49, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Oral Ofori, > > I think Florence's suggestion is the best. The deletion option seems to me > to be a bit extreme and unnecessary. Re-writing the existing article so that > it better comply's with Wikipedia guidelines should always be the first thing > to try. > > Cheers, > > Douglas. > > On 23 March 2015 at 10:02, Florence Devouard <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Le 22/03/15 20:22, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit : >> I will like to ask your help in beginning proceedings to have the wiki >> article of Dr. Thomas Mensah totally deleted from Wikipedia and done as soon >> as possible. >> This is because the page still comes up whenever you browse his name and it >> has that copyright tag there but displays nothing whatsover of his biography >> and achievements. Since Wikipedia is not displaying the bio of his work and >> achievements then I will ask that it deletes the page completely and his >> name off their servers as well because that tag implicating copyright issues >> is in itself defamatory to his character as a highly respected member of the >> global academic and scientific society. >> If any one has an address to forward this request to then that will be >> greatly appreciated, else I say we do what we can as soon as we possibly can >> to see to the complete removal of Dr. Thomas Mensah from Wikipedia if they >> do not want his article there, rather than keep his name there and that of >> Rocky Dawuni under such defamatory circumstances. >> I am open to whatever ideas anyone might have in seeing to the resolution of >> the above because Wikipedia or some editors there said it was going to take >> a week to resolve since the above page a were tagged for deletion on March >> 6, 2015 and it's been almost half a month now and they have not been >> completely removed: I speak as a concerned Ghanaian on this matter. >> > > Hello > > Here is the route I recommand to fix that issue. > > 1) go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Mensah > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Mensah> > > 2) rework the original article here, without any copyvio in there > There are two routes to do this > - the easiest (but less satisfactory) one: draft a short and clean version of > the article, putting in there only non copyrighted content > - the longest (but more satisfactory) one: rewrite the current article > (rephrase any sentence that was purely copy pasted from the original website) > > 3) contact an admin (or typically the guy who blanked the article and put the > copyvio tag) and ask him if he is happy with new version > > 4) if no answer within a week, ask another admin to review the new version. > Wait a week again > > 5) if no answer or if positive answer, copy the reworked text in the talk > page in the article space > > 6) pray (or any appropriate gesture of self confort for you) > > Ant > > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> Oral Ofori >> >> Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 >> <tel:%2B12027069881> www.about.me/OralOfori <http://www.about.me/OralOfori> >> On Mar 9, 2015 4:39 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Lol, no thats not what the message was shooting for, mistyped that there and >> thanks for efforts. Shirts about to get wet here :-) >> On Mar 9, 2015 4:26 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Excuse me ? >> So... you suggest that *I* do the clean-up of the article to remove the >> copyvios that *YOU* guys added in it... and *THEN* hand it to you to improve >> ? >> Or do you suggest that *I* go around look for some editors to improve the >> article ? >> >> This is not what is going to happen... >> If YOU guys want this article to exist, wet your shirt ;) >> >> Ant >> >> Le 09/03/15 20:01, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit : >>> Ok Florence, let me know when that Rocky becomes a substantial non-cooyvio >>> so I delve into it and add a few touches to beef it up while I cross my >>> fingers for some hope about the Thomas Mensah one too. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Oral >>> >>> Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 >>> <tel:%2B12027069881> www.about.me/OralOfori <http://www.about.me/OralOfori> >>> On Mar 9, 2015 2:19 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Dawuni >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Dawuni> >>> >>> That's temporary. I will redelete it afterwards. >>> >>> Guys, if you want to recreate a new article using the non copyvio parts of >>> this one, please do so in an intermediary space. Thanks >>> >>> Ant >>> >>> Le 09/03/15 09:45, rupert THURNER a écrit : >>>> Hmmm.. I d love to have the history. It is not my text >>>> >>>> Rupert >>>> >>>> On Mar 8, 2015 7:44 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I copy pasted the entire text in my email two days ago Rupert... >>>> You just need to copy paste it anywhere you feel it is best (online or not >>>> online). >>>> >>>> Ant >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 06/03/15 20:16, rupert THURNER a écrit : >>>>> Sure, if you could restore it, at least in my or Rex personal namespace... >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 6, 2015 7:51 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> Le 06/03/15 19:41, Florence Devouard a écrit : >>>>> Le 06/03/15 19:09, rupert THURNER a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> Yes please do send this list and try to improve them, and then tell me >>>>> how pleasant this work was. >>>>> >>>>> Contrary, for the rocky dawuni article I d be interested as well where >>>>> the copyright infringement was. I do not like that without admin >>>>> permission it is not possible to look this up... >>>>> >>>>> Rupert >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Also of interest in the conversation: >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=650110340#Copyvio_-_removal_of_tags_by_Spearmind >>>>> >>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=650110340#Copyvio_-_removal_of_tags_by_Spearmind> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Otherwise... with a quick study of what is going on about the deletion >>>>> spree, it seems that... >>>>> * in all articles, chunks are indeed copyvios. The chunks are smaller or >>>>> bigger depending on each case. >>>>> * in many cases, the article is blanked in its entirety, then deleted. >>>>> >>>>> Looks like it is a bit overkill to me. I see not why at least a stub >>>>> could be kept. >>>>> >>>>> Ant >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> > > > > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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