User talk:Ddisbrow30

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Trees That Feed Foundation

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Trees That Feed Foundation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi, thanks for message. You were correct to start your article as a draft because that provides a degree of protection while you work on the text, but, as here, drafts can be deleted if the text sufficiently contravenes our rules. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Your only reference was the organisation's own "About us", not an independent third-party source, and in this case promotional rather than factual.
There is nothing in the article to show that you meet the notability criteria. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, funding or expenditure. You don't even tell us what country or city your headquarters are, although your website has an Illinois address
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Yours gave no real information, just unsourced or self-sourced claims and opinions presented as fact, such as to feed people, create jobs, and benefit the environment... tree crops are a large part of the answer to world food concerns... They also help to develop local self-supporting businesses... they provide equipment and training
the article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. Some of your text was copied from a site marked ©2017 which does not confirm that it can be used and distributed for any purpose, as we require here. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
and we support school feeding programs. You have a conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it. In particular, if you work directly or indirectly for the organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the company you are writing about, 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:Ddisbrow30. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ddisbrow30|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

We often restore deleted text on request, but for legal reasons we don't do so for copyright violations. In any case, there was little factual content in your draft, so better to start from scratch.

Before attempting to write an article again, please check that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read this guidance. You must also reply to the COI request above

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:27, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]