Talk:Oscar Kambona

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This article has been vandalised and subjected to unwarranted deletions of major portions of it. As the creator of the article, I want it protected permanently. Otherwise I'm going to have it deleted instead of having it abused and distorted by unscrupulous individuals who want to promote their own political agenda.

Dave (talk) 03:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

There's also a question of copyright infringement. One of the users lifted entire paragraphs from a news story in This Day, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, about Oscar Kambona and incorporated them into the article without proper attribution. There were no quotation marks. But even if he/she used quotation marks, there is no proof that permission was obtained from the newspaper publisher to use the material.

So, I deleted those paragraphs.

Another user quoted from a book by Tony Laurence, The Dar Mutiny of 1964, concerning the army mutiny in Tanganyika, with regard to Kambona. It is a violation of copyright, according to Wikipedia, and I deleted that particular quotation.

If you have permission to use quotations, contact Wikipedia administrators to prove it to them. Otherwise it is a flagrant violation of copyright laws.

I intend to keep the article encyclopedic in nature as stipulated by Wikipedia. If some Wikipedia users continue to distort it, then it should be deleted. I did not create the article to advance a political agenda as some users have attempted to do.

Dave (talk) 17:11, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The citation of Godfrey Mwakikagile's Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, in the reference section, was editorialised and I deleted the comments.

It is for the readers themselves to decide whether or not his book is an objective appraisal of what happened in Tanganyika, later Tanzania, during that period, especially concerning the political dispute between President Julius Nyerere and former Foreign Affairs Minister Oscar Kambona.

Editorialisation of the article and its references does not conform to Wikipedia's policy and guidelines with regard to the encyclopedic nature of this work and constitutes a violation of those guidelines. Wikipedia is not a fan site or a publicity agency. It is an online encyclopedia. And it is neutral.

Dave (talk) 14:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)