User talk:Okorojude

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

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March 2010

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to The 100. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Frank Fontaine (talk) 18:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Rankings of Most Influential People in History

The article Rankings of Most Influential People in History has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

WP:SOAPBOX essay: wikipedia is not a publisher of editor viewpoints and arguments against another book.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Morbidthoughts (talk) 20:20, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I have removed the above-referenced PROD notice because I fixed the concerns raised above. However, I raised additional concerns on the article's talk page (and renamed the article), and there is still some question of whether this article is viable. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 20:40, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Rankings of Most Influential People in History

Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Rankings of Most Influential People in History. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Nigeria

Hello, Okorojude, I am the original uploader of File:Akure.jpg, of which you uploaded a new version. Since many other major Nigerian cities articles have requested images, could you help?--RM (Be my friend) 16:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Africa

You have been invited to join the WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Africa. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Beloved Freak 00:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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File permission problem with File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Black-scorpion-benjamin-adekunle.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Proposal to add order of office to Goodluck Jonathan

Greetings. The revision history statistics of Goodluck Jonathan lists you as one of the article's major contributors. Therefore, I would like to highlight a proposal I've put forward. I believe the order of office of Jonathan (i.e. what number president he is) should be added to the infobox, as happens with other articles. There's a dispute over that, so I wanted to invite you to the discussion on account of your involvement with the article. Thank you: Talk:Goodluck Jonathan#Order of office proposal. HonouraryMix (talk) 12:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, my apologies for not giving a clear edit summary to my revert of your adding of a new photo to the article. It's just we don't normally go for photos with texts or images superimposed on them. HonouraryMix (talk) 12:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply, and for your message of support. :) I have to confess I can appreciate where the other user was coming from. In both the pictures, you identified yourself as holding the copyright. Unless you physically took the photo, or recorded the interview, you cannot claim copyright as you have done so. So, I'm afraid I must agree that both pictures are copyright violations. As far as I'm aware, the Nigerian government has not allowed government photos to have free copyright: the fact they're used on their websites does not mean they can be used anywhere else. I agree that different photos would be nice, but unlike the case with Barack Obama (United States government photos are on free copyright), it is difficult to find photos which we can use. But, we'll keep looking. Hope this helps. HonouraryMix (talk) 14:26, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Warning

Never ever add another vote to a discussion by pretending to be someone else, as you did here: [1]. The edit history clearly shows you were the one you made that vote, not this other user you pretended to be. I cannot stress how much this is against the rules, and you will get into a huge amount of trouble if you do this again. People have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for less. Don't do it again. HonouraryMix (talk) 09:43, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Okorojude for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page.

File:John saxon.jpg

Hello Okorojude. I noticed you uploaded this photo of John Saxon. What I'm wondering is, was the photo actually taken by you? Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 12:04, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:President Goodluck Jonathan.jpg

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John Saxon

Hi! I need this photo [2] in polish version of wiki. Help if you can, please. --Morus kot (talk) 19:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

would love your collaboration

www.afropedea.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.186.48.62 (talk) 03:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Copyright problems with File:John saxon.jpg

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File:Futa logo.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Futa logo.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (talk) 11:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi Okorojude! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 20:36, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!