Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

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 i

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

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

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

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 20

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

Thanks Florence and Douglas, But the fact is that I recommend complete deletion because that tag is discrediting to Dr. Mensah's image and so if Wikipedia doesn't want him on there then it will be best to delete his name than to rather have it up with a copyvio. I hope his lawyers don't see it an

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

I think what oral is suggesting is, since its gonna tale a bit of time to get the article in shape, it should be deleted. Right, Oral? khophi.co On Mar 23, 2015 12:25 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" wrote: > Thanks Florence and Douglas, > > But the fact is that I recommend complete deletion be

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

I think @Oral, it'll take less time to improve the article than get it deleted. khophi.co On Mar 23, 2015 12:25 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" wrote: > Thanks Florence and Douglas, > > But the fact is that I recommend complete deletion because that tag is > discrediting to Dr. Mensah's image a

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

Hi All Okay - looking at the page, I can imagine why people might be a little taken a-back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah It looks pretty harsh. I do think that there should be a message included in these HUGE notices, that notices su

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

And the winner is Isla, I love her suggestion and so if that could be done so that tag is not displaying as the article is also not displayed then it will be great. At least until when the copyvio is resolved because I fear what the Doctor will do when he gets mad about it as am sure he's already

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Isla Haddow-Flood wrote: > Okay - looking at the page, I can imagine why people might be a little > taken a-back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah > > It looks pretty harsh. > Agreed. > I do think that there should be a message included in these HUG

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

At the risk of appearing a bit critical... it would have taken LESS time to write a small two-sentences article (=a stub) without the copyvio notice than the time spent today on this list discussing 1) deletion 2) rewriting 3) moving 4) stubbyfying and so on. Sigh ... when did things become so

Re: [African Wikimedians] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

Thanks Asaf!! I thought these templates were the domain of administrators. Obviously, I give them too much power. Glad that your magical powers have not been unduly diminished ;-) > On 23 Mar 2015, at 17:58, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Isla Haddow-Flood

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

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 pi

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia

Well then something is definately wrong somewhere if Wikipedia is punishing the articles/authors and not realizing that their actions via those tags have a huge potential to hurt the image of the subjects of these articles, especially in cases involving actual persons :-( Journalist/Publicist/

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 38

Dear list, I find this debate exceedingly tiring and meanwhile turning into a waste of time (It has been helpful for some clarifications). One very esteemed fellow wikipedian posted a copy-paste entry. Surely with good intentions but against basic rules. After the necessary reaction we get for

Re: [African Wikimedians] Tunisian tragedy

Dear Isla, Your thoughts affect us deeply. Thank you for taking the time to write us and toshare our suffering. Habib Le 19/03/2015 10:12, Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica a écrit : Dear Wikimedia Usergroup Tunisia Your country is all over the news and all for the wrong reasons, and I wanted