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Non-free rationale for File:Wanis Bukhamada Libyan Special Forces.jpg[edit]
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Non-free rationale for File:Major General Saqr Adam Geroushiصقر.png[edit]
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Non-free rationale for File:عبد الرازق الناظوري.jpg[edit]
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Non-free rationale for File:Khalifa B Haftar.jpg[edit]
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Non-free rationale for File:القيادة-العامة-للقوات-المسلحة-الليبية-تنعي-القائد-الميداني-“سالم-عفاريت”-360x250.jpg[edit]
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified the non-free rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F6 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 23:30, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A tag has been placed on File:Khalifa B Haftar.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the file appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Your addition to File:Khalifa B Haftar.jpg has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. General IzationTalk 00:38, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Mohamed.elmaleh. The nature of your edits 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 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:Mohamed.elmaleh. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mohamed.elmaleh|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. Whpq (talk) 19:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If the army s the copyright holder of the photos, then you need to confirm the permission via OTRS. See WP:DONATEIMAGE for more information. Ifyou have additional questions about copyright and images you can post at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. I will note that on Commons, there was at least one image that came from AFP, a press agency. You cannot just upload things and claim copyright over them if they are from somebody else.-- Whpq (talk) 19:35, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I see you're adding a lot of content that lacks attribution to reliable sources. This is a problem and is something you need to start addressing. Thanks in advance for your close attention. El_C 23:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Mohamed.elmaleh, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mohamed.elmaleh|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Whpq (talk) 23:56, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Supreme comander of the libyan national army.jpeg[edit]
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Libyan National Army, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. This edit by you was not constructive when you removed reliably sourced information on the 450 kUSD lobbying on behalf of Abdulrazek al-Nadoori and on the leadership role of an LNA commander, Mahmoud al-Werfalli, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Please propose removal on the talk page if you feel it is necessary. But as you are apparently paid by the LNA media center for your edits, you should first make a COI declaration as Whpq has requested above. A COI does not prevent you from editing; but you do have to be up-front about it, follow the guidelines and respect other editors - and propose edits on the talk page if they risk being controversial. Boud (talk) 03:18, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. Whpq (talk) 11:38, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mohamed.elmaleh: you have stated that you work for the LNA media center. That does not justify you ignoring the well-sourced information in various Wikipedia articles. The LNA does not own Wikipedia. The GNA does not own Wikipedia either. These edits by you (and some minor robot edits) severely damaged what was a reasonable attempt to clarify the fact that Libya armed forces are right now split into mainly two groups. I have fixed that damage. If you responded to Whpq's repeated requests to respond to his/her COI question and started respecting Wikipedia guidelines, then you would have a fair chance of being allowed to edit the Wikipedia. Whpq and I are not alone: many other Wikipedians will check the online records of who did what and when and judge what to do based on the online evidence and guidelines developed by Wikipedians from around the world. Boud (talk) 15:11, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please respond to this query before continuing to edit the article. Failure to do so will result in your restriction from editing. El_C 05:30, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
changing the hatnote to See also|Libyan National Army hides the fact that the Libyan armed forces are split and one is generally called (in English) LNA and the other is generally called the Libyan Army commanded by the Government of National Accord (GNA);
setting unit_name = Libyan Army creates confusion with the Libyan Army entry
setting command_structure = Libyan Armed Forces is misleading - the Libyan Armed Forces article is a historical and overview article - it doesn't define the current command structure of the LNA run by Haftar
Those three parts of the edit (now reverted) are misleading and confusing.
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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. Whpq (talk) 00:14, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. — Berean Hunter(talk) 16:28, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is a checkuser block and this account is Confirmed to LNA-MID. — Berean Hunter(talk) 16:30, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to 2019 Western Libya offensive, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. This is the edit in which you removed material without explanation. You can start a discussion section at Talk:2019_Western_Libya_offensive if you feel that you have to remove significant amounts of sourced material. Remember to sign with four tildes ~~~~. Boud (talk) 21:56, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Siege of Derna, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Koopinator (talk) 06:25, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
Your addition to File:Major General Ahmed AL-mesmary.jpg has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. De728631 (talk) 21:30, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add an inappropriate image. General Ization Talk 13:12, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Confirmed to LNA-MID.
