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Errol Sawyer: Why deletion of his jpg in his Infobox artist?

After a long time discussion to get the African-American photographer ERROl SAWYER in Wikipedia (see below) his picture in his info box is suddenly deleted last May, 2022, without reason. Errol Sawyer Foundation, owner of the copyrights, wants to upload his portrait in jpg again but is being sabotaged. Somebody else is busy with the photo of Errol Sawyer. Why and who? I need the help of a experienced editor, also to get the cover of Errol Sawyer's in 2009 published photo book City Mosaic back in his article. 1027E (talk) 14:24, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

I need the help from good reliable editor for wiki concerning the following article of Errol Sawyer: Mbinebri, you again for the fourth time???? Your endeavors to delete this article of a good photographer starts to look the more and more like like a personal crusade? Why do you disresepect this good African-American artist? You give Wikipedia a bad name! Read: [1]

7. Individuals with agendas sometimes have significant editing authority. Administrators on Wikipedia have the power to delete or disallow comments or articles they disagree with and support the viewpoints they approve. For example, beginning in 2003, U.K. scientist William Connolley became a Web site administrator and subsequently wrote or rewrote more than 5,000 Wikipedia articles supporting the concept of climate change and global warming. More importantly, he used his authority to ban more than 2,000 contributors with opposing viewpoints from making further contributions.

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3. It has become harder for casual participants to contribute. According to the Palo Alto Research Center, the contributions of casual and new contributors are being reversed at a much greater rate than several years ago. The result is that a steady group of high-level editors has more control over Wikipedia than ever.

A group of editors known as “deletionists” are said to “edit first and ask questions later,” making it harder for new contributors to participate, and making it harder for Wikipedia—which, again, aspires to provide “the sum of all human knowledge”—to overcome the issue that it is controlled by a stagnant pool of editors from a limited demographic.

To fill you in: Sawyer is an accomplished artist: Read not only his his last interview on the WSW by Richard Philips, but also read what the ex museum director Julian Spalding writes about him on his own website and read what A. D. Coleman (first photo critic of the New York Times) writes about his work in his book "City" Mosaic and on his own website. Also Sawyer's work is present in several important museum collections around the world which gives already the status of importance that he needs to have an article in Wikipedia. I suggest that you help to improve this article instead of suggest deletion. It is very important that Errol Sawyer, considered as having equal value as the African-American photographer Roy Decarava, has an article in WIki UK as he is a role model for the African-American community. I will ask the advise of more editors as I suspect prejudice from your side. 1027E (talk) His book City Mosaïc is published shortly.
This will give the necessary references to stay in Wikipedia. I have saved the files of the old article.

Robert Earl Sawyer

I started to work on RES in my user page. I have problems with the death date in the info box and the dates of spouses and children in the personal lile chapter. I don't get them neatly aligned. I think it is nice to give a better overview of the plays he has written and I 'll be working on that too.1027E (talk) 08:22, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I fixed the death date in the infobox - you just used square brackets "[]" instead of curly brackets "{}" in the template and forgot a "|" operator. I've also temporarily lined up the dates in the personal history section - obviously you won't want to leave them that way, but it should help you see at least where things are. I'll take a closer look at it later. Fleetflame 17:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

• This might be interesting to put in the article. I'm afraid the reviews section will have to go. Fleetflame 17:43, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:1027E

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There was no consensus on what to do with this page after the discussion was open for three weeks, so I have closed the discussion as "No consensus, default to Keep" for now. I hope that you will be interested in returning to Wikipedia and working on this article. If no progress is made, it may be renominated for deletion in three months. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Schomburg.pdf listed for deletion

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February 2015

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File permission problem with File:CityMosaicCoverM72dpi.jpg

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The same message applies to RobertEarlSawyer1942.jpg. -- Diannaa (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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