Le 23/03/15 18:59, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit :
Now if you Google Thomas Mensah, the first top 5 options the search
will yield has Wikipedia at the lead and when you click on that
Wikipedia option this is what you find as displayed in the screenshot
attached.
The contents of that picture attached from a Google search is truly
damaging to the image of the man even though it is meant for the
author/s of that wiki piece. The man's name is boldly there and I
worry because I called him up personally to get some info to help
improve on the piece when it was first started as I liked the piece
and felt I could help improve it by getting info from the subject himself.
My beef is still same, if we don't want to delete it then let's take
it totally offline till it's repaired so it doesn't appear in
wiki/Google search engine, or else some policy will have to change
about how copyvio/core tags are placed on articles so as to protect
the image of the individuals/subjects such articles are about because
when the non-wiki public sees what is up now, they don't think about
the author/s, they rather think about Wikipedia and the subject of the
persons involved since their names still remain without a single text
of their actual articles.
Browse to the page again now and see for yourselves my friends. I
doubt I've ever seen any such tag anywhere on Wikipedia before.
Every article listed here has such a tag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_tagged_for_copyright_problems
:-X
Anthere
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On Mar 23, 2015 4:06 AM, "Florence Devouard" <anth...@anthere.org
<mailto:anth...@anthere.org>> 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
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
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On Mar 9, 2015 4:39 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori"
<oralof...@gmail.com <mailto:oralof...@gmail.com>> 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"
<anth...@anthere.org <mailto:anth...@anthere.org>> 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
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Specialist/+12027069881 <tel:%2B12027069881>
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On Mar 9, 2015 2:19 PM, "Florence Devouard"
<anth...@anthere.org <mailto:anth...@anthere.org>> wrote:
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"
<anth...@anthere.org <mailto:anth...@anthere.org>>
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"
<anth...@anthere.org
<mailto:anth...@anthere.org>> 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
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
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