User talk:Haraldtoby2

July 2024

Hello Haraldtoby2. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Haraldtoby2. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Haraldtoby2|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. SmartSE (talk) 13:56, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Dear SmartSE,

Thank you for your efforts in attempting to make Wikipedia a safer place. Please note that I’m not a paid editor. There has been a long-term edit war on this page, please whenever you’re free, take the time to look at the history of edits and changes, as well as all the sources used. There has been vandalism by putting Al-Fahim in a positive light and there has been vandalism by putting Al-Fahim in a negative light. I’ve tried to put the Wikipedia page in a neutral tone. What I’ve tried to do is keep the fact that Al-Fahim has been convicted but also mention the true fact that Al-Fahim is a billionaire. Please take the time to review the four sources I have previously added as they are all reliable. Please understand that his conviction and billionaire status do not contradict each other as no matter how rich you are, you can still be entangled in a civil case. All I’m asking you is to not be biased to either side and take everything into serious consideration.

looking forward to hearing back from you soon, and wishing you a pleasant weekend ahead.

kind regards,

Haroldtoby2 Haraldtoby2 (talk) 16:07, 26 July 2024 (UTC)