DhaferYoussefOfficial

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, DhaferYoussefOfficial. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Dhafer Youssef, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Dhafer Youssef, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.

Please review WP:COI and WP:COIADVICE - FlightTime (open channel) 19:57, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't get the point, I am updating my 30 years career and spent 3 hours doing so. Then everything disappears.

This is clearly disrespectful. DhaferYoussefOfficial (talk) 20:11, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, we do have rules here. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Check out this template, {{edit COI}}, use that to request edits on the article talk page. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:26, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

OK I get it and I'm sorry I didn't understand how to proceed. I thought I could do edits directly on the article page.

If I understand correctly, to ask for updated articles, I should follow these steps:

1. Declare a COI - should I just write it before putting my edits requests or should I use another Wikipedia "tool"?
2. Write the proposed changes on the edit page
3. Wait for the editors to grant it or not

In the meantime, could you please send my edits back so I can proceed in accordance with the guidelines? It really took me 3 hours to write it and I feel terrible in losing it.

Thanks for your help and understanding. DhaferYoussefOfficial (talk) 22:02, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Declare your connection with the article subject on your user page, then follow the instructions at {{edit COI}} for any changes to the article you want done. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:42, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Your changes that were removed can be seen here - FlightTime (open channel) 22:45, 14 March 2024 (UTC)