User talk:Minhaaj

Discrimination? The wikimedia project is actually trying damn hard to make knowledge freely available to the third world in all the different languages. A lot more than you'll ever do in your life. Please contribute something which will benefit people or get lost. Thankyou. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In case anyone is wondering, this comment is a response to the appalling comments this user left on Jimbo Wales talk page that attacked wikipedia to the core. You labelled us racists, bigots, xenophobics and the whole works. Have you not seen the Jimbo Wales video in which we clearly are trying to help people. If you are here just to attack the core of wikipedia then I personally don't want you around. If you are here to help develop or improve wikipedia and understand the goals of the project in a civil manner with the founder and the community then I warmly welcome you to edit. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you showed other editors and the wikipedia community respect this would be reciprocated to yourself. Accuse wikipedia of discrimination because of race, ethnicitiy or socio economic status is a serious issue and the response is not exactly going to be the friendly one you may have anticipated. Show me that you can pose civil questions and make worthwhile contributions and anybody who knows me will know that I will be as friendly and encouraging as anybody on this site. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Minhaaj. All or some of your addition(s) to Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:10, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A note about paid editing or editing on behalf of an entity

Hello Minhaaj. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.
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, and if it does not, 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, 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:Minhaaj. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Minhaaj|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Since you are holding yourself out as "an official of the organization and i am editing on their behalf", it certainly appears that you need to make the paid editor disclosures. —C.Fred (talk) 01:48, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2017

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 13:48, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]