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Concern regarding Draft:Re-Mi Bandali

Hello, Elias Ziade. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Re-Mi Bandali, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:02, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Arabid slavery (December 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Timtrent was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:34, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

You're right, I shouldn't have. It's sad to see someone waste so much energy on this nonsense, but I actually went ahead and did the same thing. Sorry for the inconvenience @Timtrent. el.ziade (talkallam) 11:38, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Please talk to the creating editor, and/or submit it for speedy deletion as a hoax if you are certain. There was no point in submitting it for review. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:50, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

I did, they removed the tag. I was petty, I should not have gotten myself into this. The article just popped up in the New Article Bot feed on one of the wikiprojects I work in. I should have left it take its due course naturally. My apologies @Timtrent el.ziade (talkallam) 11:55, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Drafts at MfD tend to be retained, but it would be worth proposing it there if you are confident it is a hoax, noting that it is a disputed CSD (I have not checked the history to see that). There is most assuredly something odd going on if you look at the creating editor's Commons contributions, all of which I have submitted for a deletion discussion. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:01, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

@Timtrent The images are AI-generated; they just enter prompts and the AI created the images. el.ziade (talkallam) 12:05, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

That may be so. Commons experts are quite pedantic, and my view is that they must respond there. I am interested in their latest upload, coupled with what I perceive as a racist comment directed at you 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:07, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

It's fine, some of us get carried away, myself included. @Timtrent el.ziade (talkallam) 12:09, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

It can happen that we get carried away, yes, but this kind of attack may not happen. Thank you for choosing not to escalate it. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

We were all green once, maybe they will grow into a great contributor ... el.ziade (talkallam) 12:24, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

I find that the best editors here start with some of the worst errors 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:52, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Lemonaka (talk) 12:34, 2 December 2022 (UTC)'

I'm puting you on the notice board for Wikipedia:COIN

for you peristent vandalism and disruptive editing of the Draft:Arabid slavery IAskWhatIsTrue (talk) 12:31, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

I'm currently drafting the noticeboard post for el.ziade users persistent vandalism and disrputive editng of the page

Draft:Arabid slavery

As you can see the sources are valid

there is no hoax

there is no confusion

Yet the editor adds this for the purpose of disrupting the draft dure to Wikipedia:COIN

{{subst:coin-notice}} ~~~~

I'm puting you on the notice board for Wikipedia:COIN

for you peristent vandalism and disruptive editing of the Draft:Arabid slavery

IAskWhatIsTrue (talk) 12:33, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Elias Ziade! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 11:34, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

I am drafting a notice board for your Wikipedia:COIN for you peristent vandalism and disruptive editing of the Draft:Arabid slavery

I'm currently drafting the noticeboard post for el.ziade users persistent vandalism and disrputive editng of the page

Draft:Arabid slavery

As you can see the sources are valid

there is no hoax

there is no confusion

Yet the editor adds this for the purpose of disrupting the draft dure to Wikipedia:COIN

{{subst:coin-notice}} ~~~~

I'm puting you on the notice board for Wikipedia:COIN

for you peristent vandalism and disruptive editing of the Draft:Arabid slavery

IAskWhatIsTrue (talk) 12:34, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

There should be no <nowiki> around any substs or templates if you want to use them. I have fixed one for you, please mend others. Lemonaka (talk) 12:36, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

ok el.ziade (talkallam) 12:41, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Nine years!

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Women in Red January 2023

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Your draft article, Draft:Sacred area of the Kothon, Motya

Hello, Elias Ziade. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sacred area of the Kothon".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 21:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

@Explicit This is a draft of high importance to me. Please have it restored, I did not receive any notification. el.ziade (talkallam) 23:08, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Done – as a draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13, the page has been restored upon request. They are not for the indefinite hosting of material that is unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please continue to work on the draft so that it meets Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for inclusion, prior to another six months elapsing. ✗plicit 23:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hi Elias Ziade. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group. Please check back at WP:PERM in case your user right is time limited or probationary. This user group allows you to review new pages through the Curation system and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encyclopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember:

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@HJ Mitchell Thanks Harry, this is an honor. I'll do the community good. el.ziade (talkallam) 21:15, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

Hello Elias Ziade. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, 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:Elias Ziade. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Elias Ziade|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Bilby (talk) 22:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Bilby I am aware of the policy, and should the need arise I will disclose. Thank you for your note. el.ziade (talkallam) 22:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

I do understand that it is difficult to be a paid editor, but given that the community allows it to occur so long as you engage in full transparency, it is possible for you to both continue as an excellent general editor and take part in some paid editing on the side. But the transparency is essential. - Bilby (talk) 22:48, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Bilby: I appreciate your note truely, I do admit that I have been contacted by some people, probably because my socials are posted so evidently. but I had only shared this because I was done with anonymity and shying away, not for advertisement. If this is what prompted this please let me know so I can take them down. All I have to reveal is that I was contacted by a sportsman agent. I turned them away and they created a page themselves cos I adhere to the policies and I believe that only subjects or note should be in an encyclopedia. In any case, should anyone contact me again for such things I’ll make sure to adequately report. Thanks again. el.ziade (talkallam) 22:54, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, ultimately it is your call how you proceed. - Bilby (talk) 22:59, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Bilby I am intrigued. Your perfectly acceptable question arrives on the same day that HJ Mitchell grants NPP rights. I'm wondering what has caused you to ask the question? It appears to have been answered in an acceptable, albeit slightly oblique manner with "I am aware of the policy, and should the need arise I will disclose.", but that obliqueness does not detract from it being a clear answer to a clear question. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 23:08, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

The timing was a coincidence - I wasn't aware about the NPP rights until I came to the talk page. It could have been a factor had I have known, but in this case is unconnected. - Bilby (talk) 23:36, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Bilby I left you a message because the timing is very suspicious and this smells like sabotage. el.ziade (talkallam) 08:28, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, that was a sudden an unexpected escalation. No, I don't even know what I am supposed to be sabotaging. Any timing issues are simply coincidence - I was not generally aware of your editing at all, and certainly I can't imagine any point where we have conflict. - Bilby (talk) 08:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Farah (film)

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