User talk:Zakya.Kafafi

April 2022
Hello, I'm Dizzyflamingo. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Zakya Kafafi, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you!  dizzy flamingo  (talk) 18:45, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Zakya Kafafi. Thank you. Streetlampguy301 (talk) 19:11, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Zakya.Kafafi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Zakya Kafafi, 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.  dizzy flamingo  (talk) 18:46, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Dr. Kafafi, it's clear from this revert that you do not perhaps fully understand what we do here at Wikipedia. We are not LinkedIn. Edits have to be neutral and verified with secondary sources, especially if made by COI editors. The first thing you need to do here, right now, is declare your COI; how to do that is found in the policy linked above, which I hope you, as a scientist, have already perused. After that, it's probably best if you made suggestions on the talk page, rather than edit the article in a way that is clearly not in agreement with our guidelines. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:37, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


 * You are absolutely right! I just found out something published in Wikipedia about me that is full of mistakes like my full name which should be Zakya H Kafafi (look at my publications!) and is incomplete. Please guide me on how to send you corrections and a full story. Thanks in advance for your help and support. Zakya.Kafafi (talk) 12:46, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I declared for you, on your user page. I changed to the middle initial. The most important thing anywhere on Wikipedia is reliable secondary sources: newspaper articles, book reviews, etc. For academics, it's always easier when we're dead cause if we're lucky we get an obituary in a journal--for Susan Playfair I had to make to with something much less reliable. I hope we're a long ways away from your obituary (and mine), but it is what it is: we need secondary sourcing, and of course we can't be writing our resumes here. Do you not have a page on the NSF website? I can put this to good use. Or you can do it yourself--if you do it neutrally, in the boring encyclopedic way. Drmies (talk) 14:19, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Please check my profile at the website of Lehigh University: https://engineering.lehigh.edu/faculty/zakya-kafafi Zakya.Kafafi (talk) 22:34, 5 April 2022 (UTC)