User talk:Achafi

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Welcome to Wikipedia!

You have been adding yourself to a variety of lists. This is a frowned-upon activity. Since you are new here you probably haven't read all the rules and suggestions. But you might look for the rules on Wikipedia:Vanity guidelines.

Dean P Foster

You appear to be adding your own name to List of chemists. That is not acceptable Wikipedia practice. If I am wrong please justify the addition of this name among those eminent chemists. --Bduke 04:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I warned you back in March and you are still doing it. It is still unacceptable. If you think "Abdulrahim N. Chafi- Dr. Chafi is an Environmental Chemist and Engineer." is a notable addition to the list of chemists, you need to convince someone else to add it and to justify the notability of this person, whether this person is you or not. --Bduke 22:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are still doing this. If you do it again, I will ask an administrator to consider blocking your user account. Adding yourself to a list is not acceptable. --Bduke 23:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of civil engineers

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of civil engineers. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Adding yourself to a list of notable people, when you yourself are not notable, is a violation of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Argyriou (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]