User talk:KarimKoueider

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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi KarimKoueider. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date appear to be those of a paid editor. I am giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, KarimKoueider. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with 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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with any of the companies about which you have edited, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 03:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 16

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Paid editing

Hello KarimKoueider. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. 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 akin to Black hat SEO.

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, broadly construed, 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:KarimKoueider. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KarimKoueider|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. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Template:Z159 Jytdog (talk) 20:29, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jytdog: I am not hired or paid by anybody. Egyptian editor trying to improve pages in the middle east and the rest of the world

Your editing is very promotional and focused entirely on commercial subjects. Please reconsider your response. Jytdog (talk) 20:36, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jytdog: So because im editing corporate pages im paid by all of them ? Disgusting accusation, im contacting wikipedia for gross accusations. That was my final answer. Im not hired or paid by anyperson or company or state

If you read the notice above and what I wrote, I have not said that you are being paid, I said that your editing very much looks that way. Thanks for replying; I will open a discussion at COIN and will post notice of that here after I do. Jytdog (talk) 20:43, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 20:51, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

The thread is at the bottom of that page, Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#KarimKoueider As I noted there, you may just be a "fan" but your editing is indistinguishable from someone with a conflict of interest. I would have been happy to discuss this further and explain what you should be doing, but based on your response that would not be productive. Jytdog (talk) 20:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jytdog: I do not exclusively edit Egyptian business, Sisecam a company you listed, is turkish. I advocate business in general with proof that I have edited Japanese businesses extensively before but tend to focus more on Egyptian business as they are very badly edited and their pages are inaccurate, outdated and with a lot of bad infobox formatting. I am sorry if my reply previously suggested that I would "not be productive" but you insisted after I claimed im not affiliated with anything. I took your response the wrong way, I would gladly take advice as im new to Wikipedia

If you approach the discussion at COIN like you are doing here, it would be helpful for you and everyone else. If you are still open minded and able to edit after that discussion is complete I would be happy to teach you some stuff. Let's see what happens at COIN. Jytdog (talk) 21:04, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Removing maintenance tags

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Egyptian Exchange, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Edit war warning

Your recent editing history at Egyptian Exchange shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your 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. Jytdog (talk) 20:56, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Visa Inc, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Do not change logo size and delete pic without giving any reason. David J Johnson (talk) 21:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@David J Johnson: Thank you for the advice KarimKoueider (talk) 21:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@KarimKoueider: Then please follow the advice you have been given, instead of edit warring. Your actions are liable to a block. Thank you, David J Johnson (talk) 21:37, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@David J Johnson: I gave a reason as requested, im not edit warring KarimKoueider (talk) 21:39, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

That is not a valid reason. David J Johnson (talk) 21:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)