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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

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I have deleted the copied material that you added to Fauji Foundation. Dkreisst 08:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Uncivil behaviour on Wikipedia

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Alihyderzaidi - your recent comments and behaviour towards me on Wikipedia are both rude and uncalled for. It is apparent that you are new to Wikipedia, and I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with policies regarding civility and ownership of articles. Every wikipedian has a right to contibute to any article in the manner of their choosing, within the framework of Wikipedia's policies.

I do not appreciate the personal accusations that you have placed on my talk page. If you have issues with my contributions to an article, speak to the issues rather than resorting to unfounded personal accusations.

With respect to the Aga Khan University article, I have been a longstanding contributor and I will continue to contribute to it. I also recognize the hard work that you have put into the article. I would prefer that we each work constructively to produce a well written, verifiable, encyclopedic article, in keeping with Wikipedia policies. I hope that you are willing to demonstrate a similar spirit of good faith and respect. -- Aylahs (talk) 02:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Based on your continued uncivil behaviour, it appears that you either do not know that you are being offensive, or that you simply do not care. If it is the latter, then Wikipedia may not be the right forum for you. Wikipedia is a community encyclopedia in which different contributors seek to collaborate respectfully. I ask once again that you engage Wikipedia in that spirit - if in fact you are an AKU alumnus or former faculty member as you claimed (05:47, 4 April 2007, Aga Khan University history page), then you ought to recognize similar values engraved in the University's seal.
Here are some examples of what you have written which I consider to be personally offensive:
  • u, being an aga khani vigilante, should know how real the term is - 23:09, 8 April 2007 Alihyderzaidi (edit summary comment written by Alihyderzaidi appearing on the Aga Khan University article history page.)
  • ...and I do not want to see you, an ismaili vigilante, to vandalize or censor it. - 19:03, 8 April 2007 Alihyderzaidi (from an unsigned comment written by Alihyderzaidi on Aylahs Talk page.)
Again, if you disagree with something that I have contributed, address the merits of the issue rather than resorting to a personal attack. Perhaps we could use the article's discussion page to respectfully sort out these matters and come to a compromise on the best way to address them. -- Aylahs (talk) 14:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Alihyderzaidi - I appreciate your appology, and I hope that we can move forward in good faith and respect. Kind regards -- Aylahs (talk) 02:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image tagging for Image:Aku1.jpg

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Image tagging for Image:Aku2.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Aku2.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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AKU images

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Hi Alihyderzaidi. I am glad to see your continued contributions to the AKU article. However, I am concerned about the copyright status of the photos used in the article. While the photos look nice in the article, many of them bear a striking resemblance to those found in official AKU literature and the University website, and some of them are clearly lifted from postcards and newspapers.

It is critical that only free photographs be used, and tagging an image file with improper licensing information is not an acceptable workaround. Using photographs owned by others without their authorization comporomises the credibility of the AKU article, and could put it in danger of being deleted from wikipedia.

I would strongly recommend that you review the photographs that you have uploaded for use in this article, and where they are inappropriately lifted from other sources, please remove them. Regards -- Aylahs (talk) 15:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

As an aside - non-free images are permitted if they meet all of these criteria. If that is the case for any of the images, you need to provide appropriate justification on the image file page detailing how each of the ten criteria are met. Hope that this is helpful. -- Aylahs (talk) 15:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Possibly unfree Image:AKU Campus overcast.jpg

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-- ReyBrujo 01:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image tagging for Image:Aku3.jpg

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Hello. Concerning your contribution, Image:Aku8.jpg, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from Google. As a copyright violation, Image:Aku8.jpg appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Image:Aku8.jpg has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. ~ BigrTex 15:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply