User talk:Faruk129

December 2019

Your addition to National Union of Somali Journalists has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. A-NEUN ⦾TALK⦾ 13:25, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Faruk129. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic NUSOJ and legal threats. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 05:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Block

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action.

You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia while the threats stand or the legal action is unresolved.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

El_C 05:25, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You were blocked because it looked like you were threatening legal action against Wikipedia. If you unambiguously retract any legal threats, you'll be unblocked. Because you have a close relationship to the article topic you'd like to edit, we request that you post to Talk:National Union of Somali Journalists and explain what edits you'd like done. This is in accordance with our guideline on how to manage a conflict of interest. Once you've done that, we can hopefully clear up any issues or problems with the Wikipedia article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:49, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Faruk, I understand why you thought raising your trademark was going to make us change the article, but on Wikipedia generally raising legal matters is going to create more issues than it is going to solve. As Wikipedia merely describing NUSOJ, trademarks do not enter into the picture anyhow. I've removed the content saying Mohammed Ibrahim Moalimmu is the Secretary General since it does seem like it is false, or at least there is enough of a dispute that Wikipedia should not be saying that without a clear source.

Regarding the copyright issue: your organization needs to release the text under a compatible license before it can be used on Wikipedia per Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials - but even then, content on the website is not going to be in the appropriate tone for Wikipedia. Galobtter (pingó mió) 05:54, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Faruk129, just noting that I am in receipt of your email and have now responded. Best, El_C 17:03, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock

Faruk129, per your latest email, I have unblocked you. Good luck and happy editing! El_C 18:35, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request editing

Hi

I am writing in my capacity as the Secretary general of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and I declare that I am the leader of this organisation as may be required by Wikipedia’s conflict of interest guidelines. We have seen the information on Wikipedia in which we feel is not correct and we seek to be edited.

The concerned link of Wikipedia is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_of_Somali_Journalists

NUSOJ is a full member of the global body of journalists, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). From the following if you click on Somalia, you will see my details and name are there as bone fide official of NUSOJ: https://www.ifj.org/who/members/africa.html

Incorrectly the information in Wikipedia says that NUSOJ was founded on 2002. NUSOJ was founded in 2005 and you can see the information: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00062.htm

The said leaders (Mohamed Ibrahim and Mahir Jama) of NUSOJ in Wikipedia are false as they were bogusly crowned by the government to use as pretext for the human rights oppression but finally abandoned the government itself.

I am the founding secretary general of NUSOJ since then and you could even see report by BBC interview with me: https://www.bbc.com/news/20170168

And also http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7580021.stm

The name of our organisation is trademarked and you could see that it is registration with us: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#basic/1+1+1+1/NUSOJ

In September 2019, the court in Somalia’s capital confirms our leadership: http://www.nusoj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Court-Registration-English.pdf

As a trade union organisation, NUSOJ has been facing serious human rights oppression and even top UN Human Rights Experts condemned by clearly stating my role: https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=19924&LangID=E

The said oppression was repeatedly condemned by reputable institutions such as European Parliament which adopted resolution which clearly mentioned NUSOJ and my name and function: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0304_EN.html

The chair of the European parliamentary committee on human rights also issued statement against the persecution we have been facing: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180615IPR05920/somalia-should-stop-hounding-trade-unions-and-endangering-union-leadership

British Trades Union Congress (TUC): https://www.tuc.org.uk/person/omar-faruk-osman

https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/accusations-and-threats-criminal-prosecution-towards-omar-faruk-osman

International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) made also several publications which they refer us: https://www.ituc-csi.org/spotlight-on-omar-faruk-osman

We kindly request the information about union to be edited. The official website of the union: www.nusoj.org

Thank you for the attention!