User talk:DBlakeRoss

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License tagging for File:Nahid Angha.jpg
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Your submission at Articles for creation
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Note there are still a couple of issues: three of the references were not linked to a location in the text. To clear up the resulting errors, I have added them in places which seemed appropriate, but you may wish to check these: reference 7, 11 and 14. Also, the image still needs it's copyright status to be confirmed, as in section above. Skeowsha (talk) 14:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Shah Nazar Seyyed Dr. Ali Kianfar.jpg
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Your submission at AfC Ali Kianfar was accepted
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Conflict of interest editing
Hello, DBlakeRoss. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Nahid Angha, 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. Melcous (talk) 05:51, 19 September 2022 (UTC)


 * @DBlakeRoss: Have you read over this? Please note the third bullet in particular - the need to disclose your conflict of interest. Iskandar323 (talk) 05:58, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Melcous@Iskandar323
 * I am not compensated for any contributions on wikipedia, including Nahid Angha's biography. Nor do I have any formal relationship with the subject. Most importantly, I have attempted to meet all requirements of wikipedia guidelines for BLP and respond to input from other editors. I fully support wikipedia's rules. DBlakeRoss (talk) 18:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Would you be willing to clarify why you said you have no "formal relationship" and whether you have any other relationship? The fact that you have uploaded photographs of the subject as your own work would suggest that you have had some connection with them? Melcous (talk) 23:23, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I asked IAS.org for permission to run their pictures which they initially allowed but later retracted when it became necessary to make them public property (wikimedia commons). DBlakeRoss (talk) 00:30, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Are you a follower/friend of Nahid Angha and part of the IAS? Is she your shaykha/pir? Zaynab1418 (talk) 05:07, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Not a follower, not a friend and not a member. I have the same general interest (apparently) in Islam, the Middle East and Sufism as the three of you and I want to tell a fair story, just like you. I think my actions indicate that.
 * Re: conflict, the reason you and @Melcousand @Iskandar323removed or asked to remove some of the hagiographical aspects of my writing is the same as why I don't think conflict with MTO is a fair depiction. BLPs are not supposed to be overly positive nor overly critical.
 * He has a problem with her. I can't find any writing where she claims to be the sole successor or have any problem with him or what he's doing. None. And she's doing something completely different with IAS than he is doing with MTO. So, I agree that a conflict paragraph would be appropriate if they were competing for successorship, but that's just not the case. DBlakeRoss (talk) 20:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I find it really hard to believe you do not have a personal connection to her. Do you know her in real life? Do you know her husband? Have you written for IAS? You aren't the sole arbitrator of what is appropriate for Wikipedia and what is not. Like I said on her page, there are other pages on religious leadership disputes. I don't have anything against her, and you can see from my account I mainly create and improve pages on Muslim women, so if anything I'm sympathetic. I'm not even a Shia and I'm not and have never been an MTO member. Zaynab1418 (talk) 21:19, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

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