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for having reached out on my talk page regarding the article Kodjo Adabra, I am new here at wiki (as a creator) as you may have noticed, and so far my experience has been largely unpleasant (though there have been other friendly exceptions, you are not the first), in that I have had one article deleted for copyright violation, and then immediately put it back up (the person who deleted it based on this googled the article and found it was copy-pasted and assumed this meant copyright violation, they did not read further to where it said that it was allowed for use within the public domain, which of course includes Wiki), and nearly every human interaction since has been the same. Is there a system in wikipedia that rewards people for acting like 'article janitors' if you will?
I also just learned that somehow, being within the church (clergy, etc) automatically gets you in. If there are any neat-o shortcut criteria that can get this article in, perhaps with your experience you will have an easier time seeing that than I, though I will look. It seems to me kind of cheap as a way to meet the criteria, but clearly my legitimate attempts make me about as respectable as poop in the Wiki community at large, so I don't see how this could hurt.
The legitimate attempts include 3 separate independent sources (so far listed on the article, with more non-internet sources to come, my apologies, they are obviously less convenient), and these efforts have been met by attempts to render these sources first as non-independent, then when that failed, they tried to say they are 'routine' however if you read the WP:Routine page, and read the articles (which this editor clearly did not), it is clearly NOT a routine story, also, even if it were, that still leaves one source that is entirely independent and could not even be accused of being routine ( though I do not doubt that soon will be met by attempts to de-legitimize it). This is creating a lot of stress for me, as you can imagine, and is needless to say, quite time-consuming.
The fact is, this guy is really just a local celebrity everywhere he goes, there is not one community he has landed in where his life, his biography, did not become well known by locals, and make local papers. And not just where he has gone, but especially where he started, where he was born in Togo, he made such a splash with his writing from 2000, when he graduated from Lomé U in Togo that the the regime of Togo found it appropriate to chase him from the State. Before I go to deep into trying to find resources for this, outside of the obvious primary, and the provided secondary newspaper articles that are from the first world, would state issued documents noting his exile or imprisonment be worth the time to retrieve? or are the secondary sources enough? Would you recommend that I spend the time getting more obscure sources, when these that are provided (perhaps making a stronger case than secondary sources that have to hide from their own government, out of fear of imprisonment or torture, making them inherently not-widely-known) are met with reluctance or pity at best? honestly if everyone could get on board with that one guy and give it a pity-pass I would be happy, three separate independent sources is not a lot, I realize, but this is entirely me trying to put this together, and with time I will be able to gather the less accessible secondary sources.
Your kind words were a breath of fresh air, and I appreciate you reaching out beyond the deletion discussion pages. Thanks for your thought. Looking forward to hearing from you, in the meantime, I will scour the Wiki pages to try and find some obscure thing like the 'clergy' thing, to beat back the 'delete' votes a bit...Nolanpowers (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:33, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
@Me and: just wanted to thank you for these notes, especially the potential equivalency "equivalent notability test to WP:CLERGY for Adabra would be WP:NACADEMICS" part, is there a list of these sorts of categories somewhere that I could can through? I don't expect him to meet 'academic' requirements exactly either... a lot of his more popular work is actually fiction, but a lot of his 'widely-known'-ness is simply to his biography, which very fascinatingly, is mentioned in all three of the secondary sources, including one you might have missed, as you didn't mention it[1] (i'm hoping it will make you go back and change your vote from 'weak keep' to 'moderate keep' (or whatever come before 'strong keep'), high hopes I know, but so far prodding you humanely has proved advantageous! Also, sorry I am not skilled enough to take this part of the convo to my talk page myself, immediately, but I just found these notes the most appropriate place to add these thanks and specifications too.Nolanpowers (talk) 14:54, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
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Before you call it a "dubious endonym", can I suggest you Google it? It IS a widely used endonym for people born in Southport, with varying degrees of qualification. I'm too tired at the moment to look for a reliable source, but if you're feeling fit, you could try... There's a beer, a pub and heavens knows what called Sandgrounder as well. Peridon (talk) 20:39, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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Concerning this this edit which you undid there is no reason to have fancy columns or formats in the reference section since there is only one source being referenced in this whole article. Is there any reason why columns should be included in the reference section? There is nothing in Template:Reflist that says these columns are required. Please explain thank you. Inter&anthro (talk) 14:26, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, i already been talkback, thank you for your reply, I just go and wait for my turn to be admin helped. But when i'm the admin, i Have to be careful. And plus, i must get more than 1000 edits and less than a year very good, so i can get to be an admin forever. Thank you! 10:19, 23 February 2016 (UTC)GTX1975 — Preceding unsigned comment added by GTX1975 (talk • contribs)
Hi, I've added an external link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_like_Bill which I thought was relevant to the topic, but it was removed. On the link, I was able to create a be like bill meme (belikebillgenerator.com). thanks kevin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.106.135.139 (talk) 15:00, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
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