Pakistonomy

CS1 error on Ibex Global

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May 2024

Hello Pakistonomy. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ibex Global, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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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:Pakistonomy. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Pakistonomy|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, do not edit further until you answer this message. Jalen Folf (Bark[s]) 23:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello Jalen Folf. You are indeed mistaken, there is no compensation at all. I am merely an analyst of the Economies of the South Asian region namely Pakistan, hence my shock to see false information information on several leading companies on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is supposed to be a space where such fact checking backed up by references is to be welcomed.

My edits backed up by citations are purely made to refine the articles on companies in the South Asian market as well as to remove any incorrect information. Pakistonomy (talk) 00:23, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Engro Corporation, 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. Saqib (talk I contribs) 11:48, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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September 2024

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at TRG Pakistan. Veldsenk (talk) 06:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. Veldsenk (talk) 06:27, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

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Cullen328 (talk) 09:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

Hi Cullen328, :This block is indeed an error. :Neither my username or purpose indicate any "paid contribution". My interest is in the Economic Landscape of Pakistan, and all the organizations & events related to it. My purpose is to simply refine those pages which have either factual or grammatical errors. :As you've seen, I've been editing for a while now and have refined several Pakistan-related pages. Whether it's publishing and citing the latest news on the Pakistan Steel Mills shutting down or any grammatical errors on other pages, my edits are particulary specific to Pakistan, not to any company or organization. :My edits on the specific page of TRG Pakistan, which has been cited as the reason for my "paid contributions", had time and again been vandalized by random IPs who had added incorrect information on the Company's Financials, its Ownership Structure & its History, as well as removing any edits by anyone who attempted to refine the page. I had sent a request to protect the page from such vandalism some time ago, yet I saw that no work had been done due to large amount of requests. :I have no doubt in my mind now that those random IPs were indeed the user Veldsenk, who has followed the same MO as the random IPs who vandalized the page & removed cited information. He had recently threatened me with a block and you as an Administrator unfortunately followed through without reviewing the facts :Therefore, please fix this error immediately Pakistonomy (talk) 16:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. This unblock request has been open for more than two weeks but has not proven sufficient for any reviewing administrator to take action, or you have not responded to questions raised during that time. You are welcome to request a new block review if you substantially reword your request. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

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  3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Yamla (talk) 19:30, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

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