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16:04, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Ghidawikiphoto.png

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:Ghidawikiphoto.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status and its source. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously.

If you did not create this work entirely yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. You will also need to state under what licensing terms it was released. Please refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file.

Please add this information by editing the image description page. If the necessary information is not added within the next seven days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 17:08, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Lalsulaiman. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Ghida Fakhry, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:22, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lalsulaiman. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Lalsulaiman. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lalsulaiman|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:28, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarifications. Please allow me to clarify. I work on social strategy for Ghida Fakhry but wiki page is not in my scope I was merely doing her a favor helping her update her page as most of the infomration was not current at all. I am not being compenstaed in any way shape or form for the wiki help I provided. She asked me to see if i could help (which is clear I am a first time user from the mistakes I have made along the way) because the page is outdated and not up to date and she didnt know how to update the information. I will not make any direct edits going forward and will only propose any updates on the link provided above. I do appreciate the feedback and in no way did I intend to bypass any steps in helping her update her page.

Let me know if you need anything further from me.