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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Sumaira Foundation for NMO (June 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Theroadislong (talk) 16:18, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Aliaalchalabi! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Theroadislong (talk) 16:18, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Declare any connection

Hello Aliaalchalabi. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:The Sumaira Foundation for NMO, and that 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 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 akin to Black hat SEO.

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, 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:Aliaalchalabi. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Aliaalchalabi|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message.
Note that interns (paid and unpaid) are considered paid employees for the purpose of this requirement. --Worldbruce (talk) 18:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Worldbruce I am affiliated with the organization as an unpaid intern. I apologize for the COI, and believe that we started on Wikipedia a bit too early. I will disclose my affiliation in the necessary places. It is important to me that the best practices and rules are followed on this site, and I would still like to be able to access this draft so that it can be submitted through the "Articles for Creation" process, as this seems like a better way to go about having The Sumaira Foundation appear in Wikipedia's extensive database. Thank you for your reply. Aliaalchalabi (talk)

Your draft article, Draft:The Sumaira Foundation for NMO

Hello, Aliaalchalabi. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Sumaira Foundation for NMO".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Dolotta (talk) 16:30, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]