User talk:Dperry18

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Dperry18. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Edmund Ghareeb, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Notfrompedro (talk) 18:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

As listed above you must disclose your conflict of interest and you should propose changes on the article talk page. The edits you already added were reverted because they were completely unreferenced and overtly promotional. You need reliable sources for the information you suggest. Plain and simple conflict of interest guide is worth reading. Notfrompedro (talk) 18:54, 20 September 2021 (UTC)


 * You need to add the below information to Talk:Edmund Ghareeb not to your own talk page. Notfrompedro (talk) 19:19, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. ''You have a conflict of interest. Please stop adding promotional material to the article and use the article talk page instead.'' Notfrompedro (talk) 23:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

I have not added promotional material. I have done nothing wrong. Please stop persecuting me and actually read what I wrote. Why is there a problem with what I wrote? dperry18 (talk)


 * You are a paid employee who continually adds promotional text (completely unrefenced "internationally recognized expert") and refuses to officially disclose per WP:COI which I have quoted to you repeatedly. You aren't being persecuted for having to actually conform your behavior to Wikipedia guidelines. Notfrompedro (talk) 16:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

I am not a paid employee. I am a former student of Dr. Ghareeb's. As I said on the wikipedia talk page for his entry I believe that "internationally recognized expert" is a valid piece of information. He is on Middle East media on a daily basis. I would suspect that news channels such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya would no doubt consider him an "internationally recognized expert." I made quite a few edits to his profile years ago and it was an uneventful addition. I think that my wikipedia entry, which I put on the talk page, is totally valid. I will try as hard as I can to find attribution for as many things as possible. However, I think it is in the public's interest to see the updated wikipedia profile that I have submitted to the talk page. dperry18 (talk) (Dperry18 (talk) 18:12, 22 September 2021 (UTC))


 * This account is exactly two days old. What other accounts have you used to edit this article? How did you go from "I am Dr. Ghareeb's assistant." to "I am a former student" in two days? Notfrompedro (talk) 18:31, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

I thought it would make more sense to say that I was his assistant. When I was a student at American University I was Dr. Ghareeb's teachers assistant. At this moment I do not work for Dr. Ghareeb. Dr. Ghareeb has checked my work on his Wikipedia entry. I have just attributed "internationally recognized expert." https://abpadc.org/edmund-ghareeb/. I want to work with you to improve Dr.Ghareeb's wikipedia entry. It is in need of an update. I do not know Arabic, so I will have trouble attributing all of the things that you want me to attribute. (Dperry18 (talk) 18:40, 22 September 2021 (UTC))


 * Your source is an association for which Ghareeb is on the board. This isn't independent of the subject per WP:REPUTABLE. You worked for Ghareeb and are in communication with him to edit this article this is a conflict of interest. STOP editing the article directly and make suggestions on the talk page with independent reliable sources. I and other editors would be more than happy to review your suggestions but you have to stop attempting to ram your promotional edits into the article. Notfrompedro (talk) 18:46, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

I don't know where I will be able to get attribution for you that you will allow. I have submitted my entry on Dr. Ghareeb's talk page. Please review it and provide any comments, deletions, or additions. (Dperry18 (talk) 18:50, 22 September 2021 (UTC))

Are any of these entries helpful concerning the "internationally recognized expert?" https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edmund_Ghareeb https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ghareeb-edmund (Dperry18 (talk) 18:53, 22 September 2021 (UTC))


 * If you don't have reliable independent references for the content you want to add then it doesn't get added. Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. Sourcewatch is a wiki and therefore not usable per WP:USERG. Encyclopedia.com aggregates content from other sources and those sources might be reliable. See this discussion for more. Notfrompedro (talk) 19:17, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Edmund Ghareeb. Notfrompedro (talk) 18:30, 22 September 2021 (UTC)