User talk:Merocks9

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March 2013

Hello, Merocks9. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people or things you have written about in the article Ayyan Ali, be careful. People close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may make them mistakenly add overly-flattering or overly-disparaging content. So please read our plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Here's a partial summary of its advice:

Be transparent about your conflict of interest.
Do not edit articles about yourself, your business, or your competitors.
Post suggestions and sources on the article's talk page, or create a draft in your user space.
Your role is to summarize, inform and reference — not to promote, whitewash, or sell.
If writing a draft, write without bias, as if you don't work for the company or personally know the subject.
Have us review your draft.
Work with us and we'll work with you.

Please read the whole guide. It explains how to perform the above seven steps, and provides more advice. See also our policies on conflict of interest, neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography, which everyone must follow.

Thank you. SQGibbon (talk) 19:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ayyan

Hello. OK, I merged the information from Ayyan Ali into the Ayyan article and created a redirect from Ayyan Ali to Ayyan. There were multiple problems with the content that was already in the Ayyan article: the picture did not have the proper licensing information and was therefore a copyright violation, some of the text was taken directly from her Facebook page which is also a copyright violation, and then just generally bad prose and formatting. As it stands now it is all in decent shape. If you have any comments or questions about how to go from here and especially with regard to staying in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines then you can reach me at my talk page. SQGibbon (talk) 21:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violations

Please stop copying text directly over from Ayyan's Facebook page. It is a copyright violation. Continuing to do so will get you blocked. The image you keep inserting is also a copyright violation because there is nothing on her Facebook page giving us permission to use it and you did not supply the proper rationale when you uploaded it. Continuing to insert that image will also get you blocked.

Also, asking for page-protection does not do what you think it does. It only keeps users who do not have accounts from editing. This will not stop me or any other editor with an account from removing your copyright violations. If the admins use a heavier protection for the page then you won't be able to edit it either, which I don't think you want. You should also read up on ownership of articles (basically, neither you nor Ayyan own this article).

Finally, instead of edit warring, discuss whatever changes you want to make on the article's talk page. It's much, much easier to do this and reach a consensus than continue this ongoing edit war.

If you have any questions or comments you can reach me at my talk page. Thanks. SQGibbon (talk) 12:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm NickW557. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Ayyan, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, I restored the removed content. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 09:44, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ayyan

Regarding your edits on this page, please stop blanking the redirect. Even if you disagree with the article being redirected to the other name, the solution is not to blank the page - that is disruptive. If you feel the article should be moved back to the other title, please discuss it on the article's talk page. Thank you. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 09:50, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Merocks9. You have new messages at NickW557's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time.

--Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 10:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm TempName1. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Ayyan Ali, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, I restored the removed content. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! TempName1 (talk) 08:43, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Ayyan shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. SQGibbon (talk) 18:20, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ayyan

Please note that Wikipedia has rules about how to handle disagreements about whether her article should be named Ayyan or Ayyan Ali — namely, you may propose a page move on the talk page, but you may not get into a revert war with other editors over it. And you also may not move content by merely cutting and pasting it from one title to another, especially when the second title is already an article about another thing entirely which your actions are overwriting.

Again: you may go to Talk:Ayyan Ali and propose that the page be renamed to Ayyan (model) instead. (We will also consider moving the film to a disambiguated title and converting the plain title Ayyan to a disambiguation page instead — but the model is not entitled to simply erase the film entirely.) In the meantime, however, your behaviour has forced me to page protect both titles so that you cannot edit them at all.

You are welcome to follow our proper processes for getting the page title changed; you are not welcome to make up your own. Bearcat (talk) 06:34, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]