User talk:Sara Dawe

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May 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mohamed Zairi has been reverted.
Your edit here to Mohamed Zairi was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/mideastinfo/statuses/330556908782112768) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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Mohamed Zairi

The text you are adding to Mohamed Zairi is almost completely unsourced, and where it is sourced, its almost exclusively unreliable sources. It's also not neutral. I would suggest you read up on WP:RS and WP:Neutral.Amlaera (talk) 10:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Mohamed Zairi shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Yunshui 雲‍水 11:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help please

My boss has asked me to maintain his wikipedia page whilst he is out of the country. Being new to this I clearly have made some mistakes this week. However constantly telling me my text is not neutral is not really a help. All I am putting on there is the fact that he has been awarded a fellowship with a USA organisation. At the bottom of the page under references I add the link to see the facts confirmed but still they are deleted with no real reason. Can I appeal this ?(Sara Dawe (talk) 13:48, 14 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Material that you add needs to satisfy Wikipedia's requirements for verifiability by including references to published reliable sources independent of the subject. For details as to how references work in Wikipedia, please read Referencing for beginners. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:59, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I am still at a loss to know what I am doing wrong, perhaps I am too dim for this part of my job. My source is the web site of the organisation who bestowed the award, I cannot say any plainer than that. I will give up on this for a few days and see if I can find somebody else who wants to take this on, because I sure dont want it. Thank you anyway. :)(Sara Dawe (talk) 15:14, 14 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

I am being told by the info help line that if I put the text and the link that I need to use on this page somebody will approve it (or otherwise) is this right ?(Sara Dawe (talk) 08:23, 15 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

If that is the case then the text I would like to use is: The European Centre for Best Practice Management, received Fellow membership status for dedicated scholarship in Benchmarking and Best Practice Management, international leadership and promotion of total quality management, for pioneering expansion of education in quality throughout the Arab community by founding the first licensed, recognized online university in the United Arab Emirates and for founding Middle East Quality Association (MEQA).

With this link under the references heading:

[1] ASQ web site (Sara Dawe (talk) 08:23, 15 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Hi Sara. Frankly, it seems unlikley that you are going to be able to overcome your conflict of interest to contribute productively to this article. To help you out, I created this page to explain exactly what was wrong with your edits - after going through it, it is extremely clear to me that you are interested in promoting Prof. Zaidi, not in writing an encyclopedic article about him. As such, I would suggest that you do the following:

Refrain from editing the article again. Doing so is liable to get your account blocked, for promotional editing and edit-warring.
On the article's talkpage, post the information that you want to add. Include sources - unsourced material isn't going in, pure and simple. I would suggest doing this in small doses, perhaps a paragraph at a time.
Add the code {{edit request}} to the top of your talkpage message to get a quicker response.

Above all, understand this: you cannot add promotional text to Wikipedia, and you cannot add unsourced material to Wikipedia. Such additions wil be removed. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:03, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Which link did you have in mind? If it's the ASQ one, then the only information it confirms is that:

He is an ASQ Fellow
He founded the MEQA

That's literally all you can say in the article, based on that reference. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and I will see if I can be more neutral in the future although one point to note (in my defence) is that apart from the article about his recent fellowship status I have never had anything to do with his page, somebody else was doing the editing for him but they have now left the company. - again thank you for your help. :)(Sara Dawe (talk) 09:34, 15 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

I take it you mean User:Ecbpm... Since you're in contact with Prof. Zairi, perhaps you could inform him that it isn't appropriate for him to ask his staff to edit the Wikipedia article about him - Wikipedia is not a promotional tool, and it is not his page; he cannot dictate its content. Generally, when a person starts making edits like this to their own page, things don't work out well (These sorts of things start turning up in the press fairly quickly). Yunshui 雲‍水 09:52, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Again thank you (Sara Dawe (talk) 10:00, 15 May 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Nomination of Mohamed Zairi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mohamed Zairi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohamed Zairi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amlaera (talk • contribs) 08:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]