User talk:AlMoralesYSA

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Yorkville Sports Association (YSA), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Yorkville Sports Association (YSA)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Yorkville Sports Association (YSA), requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
• It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of http://ysaleagues.com/history.html. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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My article deleted or marked for deletion.

I’m a little confused as to what your objecting too. Is it the company name mention or the facts I wrote about? Yes it’s my company that helped maintain Central Park Ball fields before the Conservancy came into existence. We were one of those groups that helped prepare fields for play by buying clay and materials. In fact we still do in other parks in Manhattan. It is a historical fact. I’m not selling or promoting anything. I thought I was adding to the opening statement and simple identified one of the groups that partnered with parks. I was and am happy and proud we can do it. It is also historically correct that we helped the current recreational boom in our city happen and made live in nyc that much better. I’d like get back what was removed and given an opportunity to rewrite it in manner that doesn’t come across as self promotion. I just like the facts to be know, it is part of the Parks history. I can keep the company name out of it if that helps lessen the conflict.

Thank you. AM AlMoralesYSA (talk) 05:20, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

AlMoralesYSA, first off, generally speaking, you shouldn't write about things you're close to to begin with. It is almost impossible to maintain neutrality when you do that. For the particular article, aside from copyright problems, look at a few example sentences: An ad in the paper for more teams brought recreational softball players and teams out of the woodwork and YSA realized there was a huge need for someone to organize sports teams in the city. We don't use fluff phrases like "out of the woodwork". Numbers. Exactly how many? If there's no reference saying that, leave it out. We also don't include fluff like "huge". Huge according to whom? What made YSA so special... No, just no. YSA was off to a great start, and everyone took notice. No, "everyone" did not take notice. I didn't take notice, so not everyone did, since "everyone" would mean every single person on Earth. We do not use hyperbole, we stick to only literal facts verified by reliable sources. The whole thing was full of fluff like that and the deletion as such was absolutely correct. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 05:32, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Above comment by Seraphimblade moved from WT:CSD (wrong place) to here, please keep this discussion in one place. jni^{(talk)(delete)} 09:42, 6 September 2019 (UTC)