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" <nkansahrexf...@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 <bobbyshaba...@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 <nkansahrexf...@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_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 >>> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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