User talk:Ziadaboultaif

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ziadaboultaif. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Ziad Aboultaif, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:07, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

I'd like to call your attention again to the above. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:29, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your message. I completely agree. We are committed to maintain an unbiased page. Only changes made were to the image on the side of the page, which was changed to the official House of Commons image. Ziadaboultaif (talk) 17:31, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

That's good to hear. In future, however, even small edits like that would be best proposed via the article talk page. The case of the picture is, as you say, not an especially big deal, but previous edits to the page from this account did seem to violate the neutral point of view policy.

Even the image may pose a problem because it appears to be copyrighted by the House of Commons (the metadata includes "© HOC-CDC"), and even non-commercial licences are not allowed under Wikimedia Commons policy (I have just learned). I have reverted it to the previous image. However, if you can provide an alternate image which is not copyrighted, or if you can point me to some indication that the HOC has waived the copyright on its image, I would be happy to replace it. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:49, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

September 2023

Hello, I'm AntiDionysius. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:29, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Your edit to Ziad Aboultaif has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:33, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:46, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for disruptive and promotional editing. Additionally, your username appears to belong to a well-known individual and would require verification from the Wikimedia Foundation in order to be unblocked. Further you are suspected of sockpuppetry by utilizing more than one account to edit an article in a promotional manner, as you did at Ziad Aboultaif.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Ad Orientem (talk) 20:03, 25 September 2023 (UTC)