Re: [African Wikimedians] Copyright violations

2015-03-09 Thread Ingo Koll
Hi, I have followed this discussion for a while. I understand that the major problem is the copy-paste habit of some editors. There are texts which can be copied and just passed because they have no copyright. But still it is not a good idea. Because it easily loos like a puzzle where pieces do

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori
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" wrote: > Excuse me ? > So... you suggest that *I* do the clean-up of the article to remove the > copyvios that *YOU* guys

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread Florence Devouard
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

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori
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 www.about.me/Oral

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread Florence Devouard
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

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori
Is Rocky Dawuni and Dr. Thomas Mensah gone, Have they been totally deleted, and if so does anyone wanna rewrite them with me? Oral Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 9, 2015 5:40 AM, "Douglas Scott" wrote: > I have managed to get a number

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread Douglas Scott
I have managed to get a number of articles undeleted in the past before by simply asking the editor who deleted them to undelete them as I was not informed of them being nominated for deletion and so wanted to either a) discuss the deletion or b) give it a chance to be improved or both of those rea

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread Florence Devouard
Yeah... I understand that... But I would need to restore it. But whilst I am admin there, I am not familiar enough with the restoration procedure rules. I do not feel very confortable doing it :((( I am going to drop a question about that and will come back to you Ant Le 09/03/15 09:45, rupe

[African Wikimedians] Recensement actions : [Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie] Infos & valorisation du mois de la contribution francophone

2015-03-09 Thread Florence Devouard
Votre aide pour répondre au questionnaire est la bienvenue (-> Côté d'Ivoire, Algérie, Tunisie etc.) Florence -- Message transféré -- De : *Anne-Laure Prévost* > Date : 3 mars 2015 18:57 Objet : [Semaine de la langue française et de la

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread Douglas Scott
Hello everyone, I would suggest taking this as an opportunity to improve all these articles so they are in no way eligible to be deleted. That way we win two times over, we have prevented the articles from being deleted and we have improved Africa related content on Wikipedia. It is also always

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] rocky dawuni

2015-03-09 Thread rupert THURNER
Hmmm.. I d love to have the history. It is not my text Rupert On Mar 8, 2015 7:44 PM, "Florence Devouard" 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