User talk:Ginnalcam

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Hello, Ginnalcam, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Universal Business School, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Help Request

{{Help me}} I have created the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_School as an encyclopedia page that tells u what UBS is like you can find pages for Stanford University or Harvard University. This school is not that famous but anyway I think is something people may need to find in a place like Wikipedia for historic references. Did I do something wrong creating this page? and how can I get the speedy deletion from the page?.

Thank you

To be on Wikipedia, articles need to meet the following:

As your article was deleted, I can't see its contents, but I'm guessing since it was deleted for being an advertisement or promotion you didn't meet all three of these requirements. Thank you! Vaca tion 9 11:49, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Vacation9 is quite right. Your article was written in extremely promotional terms, full of marketing-speak and glowing adjectives: "a leap forward... ensuring eco-smart integrated thinking... unique experiential based learning pedagogy... a premier resource... Customer Delight... " That is not an encyclopedia article, it is an advertisement, and anything like that is deleted from Wikipedia at sight.

The fact that you write in those terms makes me guess that you are connected with the school. If so, you should read the guidelines WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. Wikipedia is not a notice-board for organizations to pin up promotional material.

If the Universal Business School is to have an article, it will need to establish Wikipedia:Notability, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See Wikipedia:Notability (summary) for more explanation. The test is, have people not connected with the school thought it important and significant enough to write about? That is quite a demanding test, and many organizations, particularly new ones, cannot meet it. That is not to their discredit, but it means they are not suitable subjects for an encyclopedia.

If you think you can establish notability, what you should do is:

Read WP:Your first article
Click on Help:userspace draft and fill in the name. That will make a draft page where you can work on the article, with a link to send it, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will check it and either accept it or give you feedback.
When you write, take great care to write in a neutral way. No opinions, no glowing adjectives, just plain facts, neutrally stated and backed up by reliable sources. Nothing about what the school hopes to do, only what it has, actually, achieved. Do not think of yourself as writing for the school - an article written like that will get deleted. You are writing for Wikipedia about the school, from outside.

JohnCD (talk) 12:41, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help :)

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