User talk:Aib2010

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Speedy deletion nomination of America in bloom[edit]

A tag has been placed on America in bloom requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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America in Bloom[edit]

Hi. I have removed most of the material you added to the article, for two reasons:

Large parts seem to be copied from the website and from http://www.americainbloom.org/App_UserFiles/Documents/Files/AnnualReport/09_Annual_Report.pdf, and Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere unless a copyright release has been made as described at Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations. Assertion of permission to use is not enough.
In any case, this sort of material is not appropriate. Wikipedia should not be approached as a notice-board onto which to pin existing material, which is usually too promotional in character; it is an encyclopedia, its articles require a neutral point of view, and it is not for promotion or advocacy of any kind, however worthy the cause.

By all means expand the article with more brief, neutrally-written information about what the organization does; but please read Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause and Your first article. Your first priority should be establish notability, a requirement to have a Wikipedia article, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases.

When the article was proposed for deletion last year, the concern expressed was:

Non-notable organisation. The coverage consists only of press releases in non-independent sources and passing mentions in local media. Coverage in secondary sources is not a head count, what matters is the depth of the coverage.

Although any PRODded article is restored on request, I shall notify user 94.212.31.237 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) who proposed it, and s/he may choose to nominate it at WP:Articles for deletion; that would start a debate lasting seven days, to which you would be welcome to contribute, but adding independent sources would be the best way to avert that.

A minor point: although posts on talk pages should be signed, article contributions should not - because no article belongs to any author, see WP:Ownership of articles; contributions are all recorded in the article history.

Finally, a major point: if you are connected with the organization, please read our guideline for those editing with a WP:Conflict of interest.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:56, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your username[edit]

I am slow today. Only when I saw "Aib2009" in the list of contributors to the article did I realise that your username includes the organisation's initials. That could be a problem if it was thought to indicate that yours is a "role account" belonging to the organisation. It is a strict rule that Wikipedia accounts must be for individuals, who are wholly responsible for them; accounts found to be shared or which appear to belong to an organisation are blocked. I do not think this need be a problem provided it is understood, and you explain to anyone who challenges it, that the account belongs to you as an individual and not to AIB. If objections are raised, or if you prefer to avoid the possibility, you can apply at WP:CHU to change username, or you can simply abandon this account, which has few edits so far, and set up a new one. If you do that, let me know your new username.

Since it is clear that you are connected with AIB, I reiterate that you need to read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, and may also find these helpful:

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:33, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]