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Your submission at Articles for creation: Historic Santa Fe Foundation (February 24)

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

Simply too suggestive of an advertised webpage, and not a formal encyclopedia article; focus with only restarting the basics along with significant major independent sourcing such as news.

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SwisterTwister talk 23:29, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In this case, it helps to focus with only the basics and also independent sourcing, such as major independent news, and not simply announcements, notices, press releases or similar, since they would not be significant. SwisterTwister talk 23:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "HSFF", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. overlooked. If you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft. 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, 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 text was completely unreferenced, the only so-called in-line reference actually being a plug for your own book. There is nothing in the text to suggest notability, such as verifiable membership and staff numbers, income and expenditure. Instead, you just promote your organisation
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims and opinionspresented as fact include: dedicated to... considered worthy of preservation... a supportive, collegial environment... A group of concerned citizens was determined not to let that happen... some of the most consistent historical resources... A complete index of HSFF reports is available on the HSFF website and so on, basically a press release
the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. Some of the text was definitely copied from the HSFF website. 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. 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.
Your user name suggests that you have a have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. 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. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, 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:HSFF. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=HSFF|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.
Your account will be blocked because its name violates our rules. It looks as if multiple accounts are being used by your organisation, which is not permitted if they are used to evade blocks. Those accounts will be blocked if they are used to post similar text while this account is blocked. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:07, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, HSFF, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:07, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]