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Dr. Awab Alvi

BDS, MSc, CEndo

I am a Dentist based in Karachi,

I blog with a pen name of Teeth Maestro and can be found at http//www.teeth.com.pk/blog

Photos

Hello Drawab,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm sorry no-one welcomed you when you made your first edits a couple of weeks ago — we usually try and welcome all new people. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

I saw the photos you uploaded of Mushtaq Mohammad and Mushtaq Ahmed. But I'm afraid they are copyright, so I'm going to have to list them at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. In general, most photos on the web are copyright, and we can only use them if we've got the permission of the photographer. The articles certainly look better with photos, but unfortunately it's illegal to use them.

One more thing — if you're interested in cricket, why not come along and join us at WikiProject Cricket? There's a group of us who work on the cricket articles, and we can always use more help!

Hope to see more from you in future.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 17:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Reponse by Awab

- Stephen I thank you for the welcome message, I do understand that those images are copyrighted and it would be unfair to use them, I permit you to delete them as needed (or guide me on how i should delete the entires

Thanks again

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June 2013

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July 2013

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PTI

Since you seem to be interested in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, you may like to have the following userbox on your userpage (copy-paste the following code). I have one on mine too :) Mar4d (talk) 10:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Code	Result
{{User:A Werewolf/Userboxes/PTI}}	This user supports the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	Usage

Thank you - what a splendid idea - will be updating my page with the code Drawab (talk) 12:18, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

No worries. Feel free to contact me if you need help with anything :) Mar4d (talk) 12:47, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Pakistan User Group

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Wiki Loves Monuments - Pakistan

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Pakistani Cultural Heritage - Edit Drive

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Khurrum Sher Zaman

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This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... these only my profile links - have tried to remove unnecessary links like the link to my TED fellowship page - but if there are other items then please advise --Dr. Awab Alvi (talk) 11:44, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Your userpage should contain some information about you, specifically relating to your activities on Wikipedia (with a bit about your off wiki activities if they are relevant). It should not be just a list of links. Indeed such links should be avoided. "Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project." (What I may not have in my user pages) Harry Let us have speaks 11:48, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Much better. Harry Let us have speaks 13:33, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Imran Khan

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Managing a conflict of interest

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Are you sure the date of birth is 29 August and not 29 July? --Saqib (talk) 15:11, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Saqib im his son - i can even provide you his passport copy if you deem necessary to obtain proof but would not like to upload it on Wikipedia for security purposes - many sources end researching this artcile on wikipedia and hence the wrong DOB is being propagated - please kindly remove the ambiguity and update the page as 29th August 1949 Dr. Awab Alvi (talk) 19:18, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

You do not need to upload any such kind of of identification document On-Wiki. @Ivanvector: Is there any policy or guidance regarding how to deal with situations where a living person claims a certain date of birth but numerous other sources say otherwise? --Saqib (talk) 20:22, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

I can share his personal email address which I assure he will respond personally [i do agree President office is at the moment slow - may or may not respond] or alternatively if you DM his "verified" twitter account - i will personally inform him of your incoming message and ask him to personally respond http://twitter.com/ArifAlvi - problem with quoting news sources is once the fact is "kind of established" each news story then uses that as a reference - I'm working to fix this on Wikipedia so at least one "editable" credible source caries his correct DOB - though it has no significance but very important to correct the facts - thank you both for cooperating - Dr. Awab Alvi (talk) 07:34, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

@Saqib: We cannot have wrong information in a Wikipedia article especially when a family member is claiming otherwise. I do not see a reason for someone to lie about date of birth for Alvi. It is not something that they are trying to change some heinous allegation against him like our friend at Nabil Gabol was doing. In fact there are some policies and essays which advise to go for correct factual information if there is a reason to believe that the sources have wrong information, for example Ignore all rules and WP:COMMONSENSE. I am in favor of changing the date of birth as per Drawab. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 10:42, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Make sense. Please feel free to change the DoB. --Saqib (talk) 17:16, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

@Saqib: thank you for accepting the changes to the DOB - would you be OK if I remove the ambiguity news report references which include the confusion to the July DOB Dr. Awab Alvi (talk) 08:11, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

I feel it should remain. --Saqib (talk) 08:28, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Drawab: I am in favor of removing all mention of incorrect birthdays as yourself but Saqib disagrees. We might need a wider discussion i.e. we might need to invite more editors to the discussion or not sure if an RFC will be a good idea! Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 14:34, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Saqib: @SheriffIsInTown: My thinking is that the DOB is a verifiable fact and you cant have wrongly quoted references as part of the Wikipedia article - I have taken the liberty to email a copy of his last (recently expired passport) to info@wikipedia.org - cc'ing Dr Arif Alvi himself on both his private email address and his presidential address so that if the editors still have any ambiguity on this issue they can email and verify from the source himself - Hope we can wrap this issue up - I do thank you for supporting in all this discussion Dr. Awab Alvi (talk) 10:37, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Requesting edit examination and opinion

Greetings,

Please do visit Talk:Cynthia D. Ritchie#Slander of Benazir Bhutto to examine discussed edits, if you find topic interested requesting your opinion, there.

For neutrality purpose opinion request is being made to users who significantly edited different sides of Pakistani political spectrum articles.

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