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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Amrak15. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mushtaq Omar Uddin, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
• instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Last but not least: All contributors must not contribute content that violates conflict of interest laws (just as all contributors must respect copyright). The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive is valid throughout the European Union. In a German court decision in 2012 (that also relied on the directive) regarding Wikipedia: "The court held that when a company edits a Wikipedia article, the resulting text falsely creates the impression that the edit has no business-related purpose. By implication, the judges found that the average reader of Wikipedia articles expects to find objective and neutral information." That is a very very important condition, comparable to the FTC Guide" that consumers are likely to believe reflects the opinions, beliefs, findings, or experience of a party other than the sponsoring advertiser”. This expectation by consumers of neutral information on Wikipedia, requires that companies not write "their" WP articles for PR/marketing purposes.

Editors who are compensated for their contributions should make the disclosure by placing the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template at the top of the talk page of affected articles and filling in the parameters. They should also supply this information as part of a list on their user page of all their paid contributions.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Since your edits give the appearance that you are editing on behalf of or at the request of Mushtaq Omar Uddin, you need to clear up your relationship with the subject, especially if it is some kind of paid relationship. —C.Fred (talk) 19:38, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Reminder: blanking is interpreted as acknowledgment

Any user may remove messages left at their talk page. That said, most Wikipedia administrators interpret that if a user has removed the message, they have read and acknowledged it. That means you have acknowledged:

• A final warning about disruption of an article
• A notification that you should contact the Volunteer Response Team, who may be able to assist with your concerns
• A notification that you appear to have a conflict of interest and may need to make a disclosure about paid editing.

Again, it's your prerogative to remove warnings and messages, but don't think you can play the "I didn't know" card about content in those removed messages. —C.Fred (talk) 19:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)