User talk:Tareq Zaghouani

October 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. — fox 06:54, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Qatar Media Corporation


A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Qatar Media Corporation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service. This is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages — user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. —  Wasell ( T ) 08:37, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. User pages are for you to write about your activities on Wikipedia, and are not for promoting your company. It would have been deleted even if posted as an article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all, just some words in Arabic that were not linked to any website, and seemed to be referring to the Qatar government rather than your company. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * You give no evidence that the company actually meets the notability guidelines above. All you do is tell us what it claims, to show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, funding or expenditure.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced or self-sourced claims presented as fact include: numerous TV and Radio channels... keeping up with what's new and to our values we commit... that serves the ends of Qatar National Vision... vigorously pursues the latest developments... preserves the culture and identity of the state and its community.&mdash; fact-free spam
 * the article was a copyright violation of Qatar Media Corporation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. The copied site was marked All rights reserved to QMC © 2017. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial but there is no indication that the copied site allows free use. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. Since you work directly or indirectly for the organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. Regardless, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:  {{ paid|user= {BASEPAGENAME}}|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName }} .

I note that rather  generously only soft blocked you for the user name violation rather than the fact that you were spamming from a forbidden user name, and that  unblocked you on that basis even though you did not give a reason or any undertakings for your unblock request. You should be clear that it is a condition of unblocking that you do not repeat the behaviour that got you blocked in the first place. If you write about the QMC from this or any other account again, I will hard block your account indefinitely without the option you were given above to create a new account. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I see that despite the warning about COI you were given above, you are still writing spam articles for your company. I've deleted them, but I'm not going to reblock you yet because you won't have seen my final warning above. Next attempt though, you have no excuse. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:24, 12 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for further message. You said we want to add info about it in Wikipedia. You are not allowed to write on behalf of an organisation, particularly as you haven't declared your paid editor status. If you attempt to do so, I will block you. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also guidance for editors with conflicts of interest and this important guidance Jimfbleak - talk to me?  08:11, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Your safest course is to make a request as above. You could formally declare your interest as shown above,and try again but given your conflict of interest and lack of experience, it is unlikely that you would write the sort of neutral referenced article we require. see Tesco as a reasonable example of a company article. We cannot accept payment to write articles, we are all unpaid volunteers.  We definitely don't need PR or other company documents, they are not independent third party sources Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  08:54, 12 November 2017 (UTC)