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I am a donor and volunteer for WIKI and for the Choroideremia Research Foundation. I am currently employed at Microsoft, but there is no affiliation between my employer and either organization. I am not promoting anything. I am trying to help a foundation connect patients and researchers of a rare disease.

CRF Sept 16, 2022

My son, Florin, has a rare disease called Choroideremia. Choroideremia is an X-linked disease effecting the Rep1 protein created by variations on the Xq21 gene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroideremia

Florin's grandfather was misdiagnosed with another rare retinal dystrophy, Retinitis Pigmentosa. This is a common problem for Ophthalmologists, and an important part of the CRF mission. This desease exists. The researchers, patients and their family deserve to be able to find each other.

I am not on the board or serving on CRF staff as anything more than a volunteer. This is my first Wiki article, but this organization and disease are too important for my novice skills to stand in the way CHM patients and researchers finding each other.

I respectfully ask that you re-consider the new text of the proposed CRF article viewable in my sandbox at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Toddbeckett/sandbox

If I am doing this all wrong, I am sorry. My son, Florin, has a rare disease called Choroideremia. Choroideremia is an X-linked disease effecting the Rep1 protein created by variations on the Xq21 gene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroideremia

Florin's grandfather was misdiagnosed with another rare retinal dystrophy, Retinitis Pigmentosa. This is a common problem for Ophthalmologists, and an important part of the CRF mission. This disease exists. The researchers, patients and their family deserve to be able to find each other.

I am not on the board or serving on CRF staff as anything more than a volunteer. This is my first Wiki article, but this organization and disease are too important for my novice skills to stand in the way CHM patients and researchers finding each other.

I respectfully ask that you re-consider the new text of the proposed CRF article viewable in my sandbox at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Toddbeckett/sandbox

Todd Beckett — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddbeckett (talk • contribs) 18:44, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Choroideremia Research Foundation for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Choroideremia Research Foundation

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Choroideremia Research Foundation (September 21)

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

The comment the reviewer left was:

The sources are no good, any significant coverage is paid for so not independent nor reliable. The rest are either listings or mentions.

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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McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 18:50, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Choroideremia Research Foundation

Hello, Toddbeckett. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Choroideremia Research Foundation".

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. ✗plicit 12:38, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]