Dhushara

Hi there, Chris. I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia. However, it's important you understand that you shouldn't try to put promotional articles for yourself in the main article space. Your userpage is fine; the "Dhushara" article, however, has been converted into a redirect - eliminating the reference to userpage space. DS 14:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

hello, Dhushara. i have looked over some of your good-faith contributions to the article Sakina. i would like to note that presenting websites (such as dhushara.com or sakina.org) to which you are affiliated may present a conflict of interest. ideally, an editor should stay away from utilising any sources or websites which they are affiliated with. also, material inserted needs to comply with our content policies, which includes the verification of insertions through use of appropriate citations. sources used should generally be secondary, reliable and of a peer-reviewed/academic nature. if one makes assertions in articles which have no specific basis in the sources, it may very well constitute original research (see Wikipedia:Original research for more details). on these bases, i may have to review some of the material that has been inserted, and i will try to leave additional related comments on the talk page. if you have any queries, i will be happy to help. regards, ITAQALLAH 20:46, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Itaqallah, Thanks for your comment about Sakina. I am somewhat concerned about the direction of your response and want to raise this with you because it may apply to other articles you are involved with editing. When I came to make a comment in reply, several points became apparent, which raise a measure of concern that you may have a conflict of interest in considering deleting any sections of the Sakina wiki. The grounds you cite are general criteria about referencing and wiki editorship. However I have gone to a degree of care to provide the most authoritative sources for this wiki and to establish as full an understanding as possible of the interlocking threads giving it consistency and validity. You have a specific interest primarily in Islamic issues and are a professed deletionist. There is a recent entry in this talk page expressing concern about your attitude to Karen Armstrong in claiming she is 'unreliable'. This raises the question that you could be using your role to repress critiques of conventional Islamic interpretations, even those citing highly reputable historians, on grounds that you dispute the sources, or claim the tenor of the article is original research, or that a person editing it has a conflict of interest in doing so. I see a major danger in this and question your strategic role in the process. Deletionism is a key instrument of all totalitarian movements which impose social order, whether it is done as outright censorship, or by attempting to raise a consensus to expunge the dissonant sensitive facts on procedural grounds. On the basis of your own argument, one might conclude you could have a conflict of interest in editing pages too closely related to your own professed area of strategic interest in Islam Dhushara 04:04, 11 August 2007 (UTC).

COI

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Ronz 03:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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Greetings from Cambodia

Hi Chris/Dhushara. You have some beautiful photographs of some magical parts of the world on your travel blog. I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through them and reading about your travels in 2006. Thank you for posting them on the internet where others can see them. Having read your travel blog I can share some of your frustrations with the PSB around Tibet myself. I found Tibet both incredibly warming and deeply disturbing at the same time. When you see foreign soldiers posted on rooftops and patrolling the Barkhor, there is something fundamentally wrong with the picture. Cambodia is my home and I can imagine how the Khmer would feel if Vietnamese soldiers were posted around Angkor Wat. Unfortunately, the link to your travel blog "asiain90days" that you have added to a few articles is not permitted by Wikipedia's policy on external links. I don't always agree with WP policy, nor do I believe it should be followed slavishly. However, in this case I am behind it 100% and I actively hunt down these links and remove them. I'm sure you can understand how opening the door to including links to blogs and personal websites on Wikipedia articles could rapidly turn our little corner of the internet into a chaotic advertising noticeboard. It's also often the case that when a blog link is posted and not removed, others rapidly follow. For these reasons, I've removed all links to your blog. I also think people are often emboldened to add links to their own pages after the first link is posted. Sometimes this is blatant self promotion, sometimes people are simply trying to add links to additional information for readers. I believe you fall firmly into the second category, and therefore, you also deserve the courtesy of this note and explanation after removing your links. However, I am glad you added these links for one reason - it gave me the opportunity to 'meet' you, if only in this virtual space - and I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance. If there is anything I can help you with while you are in this odd little corner of the internet, I hope you'll leave a note on my page and I'll try to help out. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 06:34, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Copyright violation

It appears that most of the content you added to Jade Emperor Pagoda in these edits was almost verbatim from Vietnam 作者 Nick Ray,Peter Dragicevich, Regis St. Louis. Please rewrite it in your own words a re-add it if you want. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Bloggy external links

Please don't add blog external links to articles as you did here, here, and here. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:11, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

And by the way: welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, Dhushara, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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I know you've been around for a while, but welcome. And, here is some good reading about the guidelines. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:12, 20 December 2010 (UTC)