User talk:Gdesilva

Your recent addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:06, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and thanks for the comment. When you open an edit window, there's an automatic warning above the edit space which warns against the posting of copyrighted material. It's deleted as quickly as possible due to the possibility of legal jeopardy. Sorry about the mix-up. You may write about the organization, but please do so in your own words. You may also cite the original website. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Gdesilva, sorry to see that your article was deleted, but there's a very specific reason that Nawlinwiki deleted it — articles about organisations must demonstrate that they pass our notability standards, because Wikipedia is not a webhost, but an encyclopedia. Please don't think that Nawlinwiki didn't delete it because he wanted to up his statistics, or worry that he is somehow opposed to humanitarian organisations. Nyttend backup (talk) 15:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I just happened to see your (polite) complaint about the deletion of the article that you created. I then read the deleted article. Here's how it starts:

Himalayan Dolpo Healing Project is an initiative to provide free health care to Tibetan people living in the remote Dolpo Region, Western Nepal. The projects goal is to provide basic health care to the people of Dolpo at no cost.

So far there's no assertion that it is up and running and doing anything.

It continues:

The initial free health clinic was undertaken earlier in the 2009 when an Australian, John Ross ran a free clinic in Boldha near Kathmandu.

Within that, "ran" implies that he's not running it now. It looks as if one man did something at some unspecified time earlier this year.

Let's jump a bit:

The Himalayan Dolpo Heaing Project is currently operating from a temporary building in Boldha and Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche is almost ready to purchase a dedicated property from where the free clinics will operate.

So it's doing something, but we aren't yet told what. We proceed:

The Project welcomes volunteer medical professionals from all over the world and are specially seeking practitioners in the fields of pediatrics, obstetrics, general practitioners, chiropractors as well as suppliers of medicines, both modern and traditional, and medical equipment. The emphasis is on basic health care.

This looks like a "help wanted" ad. It's phrased clearly, unsensationally, and (for a magazine ad) unobjectionably, and it could be appropriate in a directory -- but Wikipedia isn't a directory.

And none of the factual claims comes with independent verification.

I see no sign that this enterprise merits an article. That's not to denigrate it in any way: it may very well grow and get attention from outside, whereupon it will merit an article.

I sympathize with your complaint that it's hard to understand how to create articles for Wikipedia. It certainly is. I started by making minor corrections to mistakes that I happened to notice. Try that at first; then you can add paragraphs; and after you've worked with others on articles, you'll be well equipped to work on your own, having ingested most of the content of "WP:V" and the like without having had to read it. -- Hoary (talk) 09:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]