User talk:Hamzaelhamzaoui

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Hello, Hamzaelhamzaoui, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page OCP Policy Center, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Vanjagenije (talk) 01:11, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding external links to the body of an article

Hello, I'm Vanjagenije. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of OCP Policy Center. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Vanjagenije (talk) 01:13, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OCP Policy Center

Greetings,

I appreciate your kind words regarding Wikipedia, and admire the good work in which your organization engages to help make the world a better place. Wikipedia is first and foremost an encyclopedia: this means that, although we would love to extend a hand of friendship to every noble humanitarian organization, we are constrained by standards of encyclopedic notability. Wikipedia does not exist to promote any organization -- only to document those which have already received extensive coverage in reliable secondary sources. The article for the OCP Policy Center was deleted because it lacked such references. In order for an article on your organization to remain, Wikipedia requires evidence of its notability: press coverage, written coverage in non-fiction books, coverage in academic journals, coverage in specialist trade publications, television or radio appearances, and the like.

Additionally, it is somewhat problematic that you, the author of the article, work for the organization about which you write. Although Wikipedia does not prohibit editors from writing about subjects in which they are involved, this can present conflict-of-interest concerns. Wikipedia articles must be neutral and balanced in tone, and cannot appear biased either in favor of or against the topics which they cover. Since you are employed by OCP Policy Center, it might prove difficult for you to produce impartial material regarding the Center. You might consider whether it is wise simply to wait -- if the Center is truly encyclopedically notable, an uninvolved editor will soon take interest in the subject and compose an impartial article. If you wish to try composing an article again, another possibility is to do so in your sandbox. This is an area reserve for "practicing" the composition of articles. After you have completed a full, reliably sourced draft of a new article, I (or another administrator) can review it for you and advise regarding whether it meets community standards for quality and reliability. To assist you, I have placed a copy of the deleted article in your sandbox for you to edit and provide appropriate references. If you have any further questions, I'll be happy to help you. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 18:32, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, it is important to note that one draft of the article was deleted as being too similar to a webpage from the Atlantic Dialogues. Content on Wikipedia must be original, and cannot be copied from any other source (unless that source is in the public domain.) Wikipedia seeks to avoid infringing the copyright of anyone, whether in print or published on the web. Please be sure that the content composed in your article is not taken from any copyrighted source. (You should, of course, reference the source, but not copy its language without proper attribution. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 18:44, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

From Jim

Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

Parts of the article were a copyright violation of this page. 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. In this case the page is clearly marked © copyright 2014 All rights reserved OCP Policy Center. 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. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. You can add in line references using <ref>[url description]</ref> Adding {{reflist}} to a "References" section at the end of the article will generate a list. You cannot rely only on your own or affiliated references since they are not independent.
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: The OCP Policy Center has the ambition to function as an open debate platform, in the spirit of a “public good,” a center for fact-based intellectual stimulation, an incubator for ideas, and a proactive source of proposals... Its overarching objective is to enhance corporate and national capacities for objective policy analysis to foster economic and social development... and so on...
it's all about what the organisation claims to do, little about the OCP itself. Where are its offices? How many employees? How much funding?
there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections
You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. Thank you for declaring your interest. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

I hope this clarifies Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:02, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]