543:"Mr. John Banks Elliott throughout his private and official life is renowned for his successes in building the Republic of Ghana’s image as the first African Country to gain Independence. He is resolute and holds no grudges towards any persons or institutions that are inequitable towards him or his achievements’. He resides in the Royal Borough of Berkshire, United Kingdom and is happy meeting old and new friends for a chat and catching up with current affairs of the world." Good for Mr. John Banks Elliot? The latter half of the hagiography has a grand total of one reference.
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383:, I think the recent expansion of the stub is highly problematic and, all in all, not beneficial. In particular, many of the cited sources don't mention Elliott or don't say what they're cited for. For example, the source for the claim that "he lived under the guidance of the Rt. Rev. John Orfeur Anglionby, Bishop of Accra" is
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Is this some sort of a personal vendetta against the subject, the topic or just the writer of the article? He has continually disrupted the progress of
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has quite a bit to say about
Elliott's role relating to unrest of Ghanaian and other African students in the Soviet Union due to racist incidents. It does not, however, mention a "tit-for-tat" or Soviet accusations of racist incidents against African diplomats in America - yet that's what it's cited
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NeilN, with reference to your message, I have rearticulated your concern regarding the last two paragraphs. Yes I agree that some more work needs to be done. With reference to name familiarities, I think you will agree that one will find and sometimes meet people with same or similar surnames. It
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four times on your talk page, at Joe Decker's and Huon's talk pages, and on the ANI report you opened, but I'm not certain you have read the replies you've received in several of those places. Please read them, because it's still clear that you're not understanding the problem with your images.
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mention him (with the possible exception of a JPEG image of which the file name, but no link are given - that's about as useful as citing "the book I have in my bookshelf"). The only source for
Nkrumah's 1961 visit to Moscow that mentions Elliott says he accompanied Nkrumah to a concert - that's
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Elliott as advancing Soviet positions instead of Ghanaian ones and even cites another historian who called Elliott " worst ambassadorial appointment in this period". None of this found its way into our article. That's blatant whitewashing.
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general public visiting
Knowledge (XXG). There are no reasons for @Houn’s haphazard behaviour, it has gone beyond decency. If @Houn has a personal problem, then he should let us know, perhaps we can help sort it, so that the article can go forward without disruption.
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I will also suggest you see
Knowledge (XXG): Copyright situations by country. To all of you who deleted files with reference to Ambassador John Banks Elliott “Your apologies are accepted” now, please replace them so that I can edit them
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I have read it thoroughly and have visited the applicable links. I would like to bring your attention to the guidelines on
Knowledge (XXG): Public domain. Where it states that Knowledge (XXG) is primarily subject to U.S. Law.
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So in summary, instead of an accurate portrait of what reliable third-party sources report about
Elliott, this expansion presents a one-sidedly positive image without (or even in spite of) references, based, according to
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