User talk:Sdashti

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Hello, Sdashti. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Rola Dashti, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 08:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Sdashti, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.  So Why  13:14, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Ms Dashti, I want to apologize on behalf of the Wikipedia editing community for the brusqueness with which you have been treated. I know it can be a steep learning curve here. Since you have been blocked for your user name, I hope you will send the necessary e-mail to prove your identity (I am assuming you are telling the truth, but as the template above states, we have to guard against impersonation).

Regarding the article, after I saw the report about you and the article at a noticeboard, I took a look at your edits. Your first edit to the article after you registered this user name did not remove any references; it replaced unreferenced material with lengthier, also unreferenced material. However, in this edit you did replace referenced material with unreferenced, and that degrades the article. We use references so that the reader can seek out more information, and also to show where we got the information from, so that it can be checked and to demonstrate its trustworthiness. Please don't remove references. It would be wonderful if you could add some, especially for newer information, and they don't have to be online (for example, offline newspaper articles are fine, just provide full information about the article, the date of publication, the name of the newspaper ...; and of course foreign-language sources are fine too.)

Also, I suspect some of the friction may come from the difference between an encyclopedic article and other kinds of profiles. We aim to write neutrally and factually based on what reliable sources say, and to include all important information but no more. An encyclopedia entry on someone's career will tend to be terse and should not include evaluative statements unless they are sourced. Just the facts, clear and with sources. So when I have written up a politician, my account of their career has sometimes been even shorter than their official parliamentary biography. (The reader can then see more detail by looking at the sources, including that page and the person's official website).

Sorry to write at such length, but I hope I've explained some things that may not have been fully clear from the templated messages above. (I see you were given a welcome template at the top of teh page; that has links to fuller explanations of our policies and the terminology we use.) And I hope you'll sort out the name issue, get unblocked, and help us update the entry about you, and also about other people and topics regarding which you have expert knowledge. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)