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16:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lone Star Policy Institute

The article Lone Star Policy Institute has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of notability per WP:GNG or WP:NORG. I am unable to find significant discussion of the Institute in multiple reliable sources.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ... discospinster _talk 15:26, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, OrgTracker. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Lone Star Policy Institute, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 06:44, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure

The article Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Promotional article

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. MrsSnoozyTurtle 12:01, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MrsSnoozyTurtle, thanks for reviewing this page. I've made other edits to the page and removed your proposed deletion tag. I'm still a little new to wikipedia - I'd welcome advice on avoiding promotional language when describing orgs. OrgTracker (talk) 14:58, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure

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A tag has been placed on Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. MrsSnoozyTurtle 08:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MrsSnoozyTurtle I disagree and would contest, only when I went to the page someone already had. You can see in my talk page it wasn't my first article, but that one was deleted for a similar reason. Clearly I'm still working out the kinks in being able to write encyclopedically. But I really believe this page should exist, it's an org I see all the time and have seen cited by other orgs and in government reports. Is there any way you could help make edits rather than delete? I'm making edits to build up my chops, but my record on new pages is going to tank. I am going to start making revisions today - if there is a way to avoid deletion, I would appreciate it. OrgTracker (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I didn't "contest" the speedy deletion, but I rejected the nomination (as an admin) because I felt that the article wasn't intended to be promotional and the wording didn't go far enough over the edge to satisfy me. When you are new and intend to create a substantial article on a serious topic - particularly an organisation or company - it's much better to create articles in draft space, even though the backlog for reviewing is long, because that will give you feedback without entailing any aggravation. Try and think about how a person who was intending to promote an organisation would write, and then try and go down a different path. Don't just focus on what they have achieved - look out for bad things as well as good ones - there may not be any, but make the effort to find out. Deb (talk) 15:02, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Deb, I really appreciate the feedback and advice. I will work on that going forward and make some additional edits on this particular page. (Also sorry about confusing the language - "contest" versus "reject" - that is just my novice). OrgTracker (talk) 20:22, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that. It's not that it's important in itself, it will just help you if you are trying to explain things to more experienced editors. This was a very simple place when it started, but it is quite complicated now! Deb (talk) 07:56, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

MrsSnoozyTurtle 23:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello OrgTracker. Just letting you know that I have nominated this article for a deletion discussion. Notability is a separate issue to the promotional tone issues, and I am concerned that the topic doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability policies. For further information, please see the links in the automatic notification message above this one. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 23:41, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MrsSnoozyTurtle, I appreciate you keeping me in the loop. I understand the concern around notability because it is sort of a niche area - a think tank centering on infrastructure - but it the org appears in reputable sources, is led by notable people, and fits within the expectations of similar groups. I work in policy and have seen this org in paper footnotes and gov reports. I'm new on wikipedia, but I'm here trying to improve things from my sphere of knowledge in policy, and I'm confident in this page. When I started researching to make the page, I found a number of source, but the org also has a catalog on its site of hundreds of media attributions. I didn't cite the page from their website because that would seem circular - that they seem to think they're notable - but the page is a catalog of independent sources (that page is here: https://www.aii.org/in-the-media/) so I cited things I found from google, yahoo, and bing searches for "Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure" after doing different filters for news, books, journals etc. I'm still making edits to this page and strongly feel it should not be deleted. OrgTracker (talk) 16:03, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Common Ground Alliance (August 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 DavidEfraim was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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 after they have been resolved.

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DavidEfraim (talk) 17:53, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Common Ground Alliance

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:02, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Common Ground Alliance

Hello, OrgTracker. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Common Ground Alliance".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:49, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]