Talk:Gbeogo

Setting the record straight
I created this article nearly a year ago and I've just come across it again and found that it was listed for deletion in February, because it was judged to be "Subtle linkspam. No verifiable content." This is false. &mdash; Trilobite 22:20, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) I created the article, including the links, in good faith. I came across some mention of the village when writing a brief entry on the Tallensi and searching the web for relevant material. I created this article to fill a redlink and put the links in as a source for the information and for further reading if anyone was interested. Wikipedia is full of articles on villages in the developed world, and I've created many of these myself. We ought to have similar articles for every village in the developing world, so I added this one as a small step towards that goal.
 * 2) I am not Marios Cleovoulou, the author of the linked pages, nor do I have any link to him or his website, so I was not linkspamming (and neither was he).
 * 3) I'd been editing Wikipedia a whole year by the time I created this article, during which time I'd made lots of good contributions, was an editor in good standing, and had been granted adminship; indeed I've fought a good deal of battles against linkspammers, some of them acting subtly. I hate linkspamming and spam of all kinds, and I resent the accusation that I would engage in it myself.
 * 4) Of course the content of the article is verifiable. For a start I have included links to an article that discusses the village in detail, has photos of it, and discusses an organisation that works there called the Namalteng Integrated Development Programme (which googles very well for a small-scale African NGO). Two of the participants in the deletion debate (which resulted in a unanimous decision to keep the article) found Gbeogo on internet mapping sites.