User talk:Charbel.el-khaissi

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Charbel.el-khaissi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page I Wayan Arka, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:33, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of I Wayan Arka for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article I Wayan Arka is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/I Wayan Arka until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:56, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Reply
Hi DoubleGrazing, thank-you for taking time to review this article. As a first-time user of Wikipedia, I'm impressed to learn of the thoroughness of Wiki's publication procedures.

Regarding potential COI with the subject I have written about, I Wayan Arka, I was previously a student of Wayan's university courses, and I have undertaken professional editing work on a research publication that he co-authored. I am currently a student of the same tertiary instituion he works at, albeit different departments/disciplines.

Regarding the content, I agree that my writing style can sometimes be promotional and that this should be stripped back to comply with BLP policies. I also agree that the referencing could be tightened to align with Verification policies, especially where the content was sourced from published books, papers, etc which I have read during my own studies.

In summary, it seems perfectly reasonable for this page to be re-edited given this was my first attempt. It wouldn't seem fair to permanently delete the page given the notability of this professor's research on the Austronesian linguistic research community, similar to other scholars in Australia and abroad who have wiki pages also! Charbel.el-khaissi (talk) 11:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Okay, thank you for clarifying all that. I had meanwhile already looked into this and discovered more or less the same. Given your external professional connection with the subject, it would be better if you didn't edit this article any further, with the exception of possibly toning down / removing some of the promotional content.
 * Whether the article gets deleted is now pending the outcome of the open AfD (linked above). It's early days, but so far the first opinion is for keeping it. And if it does go that way, I for one have absolutely no problem with that. :) Best, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:39, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * PS: Just to say that if you reply to me anywhere other than on my talk page, I don't get alerted unless you 'ping' me.


 * Although I was the one who moved this AfD, I'm quite glad the I Wayan Arka article survived in the end, thanks to riding to the rescue. :) --DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:54, 27 April 2021 (UTC)