Ferando927

Welcome!

Hello, Ferando927, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Saudi Arabian Military Industries, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 00:56, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Drmies. I'm new here and I'm editing this page. I've already drafted it offline and I need you to please proofread it. Can I have your email address or how can I send it to you? Thanks.

{{Help me}}

You've pinged Drmies already, so adding the help-me template just woke up some other people who are not Drmies. Just post your page to a sandbox and request a review. Nothing bad will happen to you even if the draft is not yet in acceptable shape. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, jmcgnh, and forgive me for waking you up. I’m a newbie here. Can you help me with posting my page to a sandbox and requesting a review? How do I do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferando927 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I see that you've already created some content on your sandbox. What you wrote there looks like it should have been place on your userpage, which hasn't been created yet: User:Ferando927

So you know how to create a sandbox. You can create another one or you can create a userspace draft, naming the draft just the way you envision the eventual article to be named. Copy the text from your word processor into the edit window of your draft. Fix up anything that doesn't look right. Then, one option is to submit it. If there's no "submit your draft" button, you can create the same effect by adding the text {{subst:submit}} at the top of the edit window and clicking on the "Publish" button. If you're not sure yet that your draft is ready for a regular review (which can take quite a while), you might be able get someone to take an informal look at it by asking at the Teahouse or the Articles for Creation Help Desk. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:23, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Editing with a conflict of interest

Hello, Ferando927. 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. 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 which forms all or part of work 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. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

You need to disclose your employment on your user page

Hello Ferando927. 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:Ferando927. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ferando927|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. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Even if you are not being paid to edit Saudi Arabian Military Industries, that you are pretty clearly employed by them or a firm hired by them means you need to disclose your employment. Also, you need to stick to edit requests instead of directly editing the article. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, Ferando927, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Omarbiyari (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 12:18, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm adding the article to my watchlist. If you take any other action besides disclosing your employment, I'm going to block you. If a third account (besides Omarbiyari) shows up to restore the material, I'm blocking all three accounts. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:29, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Ferando927! You created a thread called I need help at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 13 September 2018 (UTC)