User talk:Wattie92

Welcome

Hello, Wattie92, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page World School Council have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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April 2009

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article World School Council, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. RadioFan (talk) 21:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World School Council

I am sorry if we seem unwelcoming, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a notice-board. Many people would like to use it to promote themselves or their organisations, but it is not for promotion, it can only stay a useful encyclopedia by having standards about what is acceptable for an article subject. One of these is that a subject needs to be already established and well-known - the Wikipedia term for that is notable, and the test is that it has "has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". It follows that a newly-set-up organisation like yours has almost no chance of qualifying. If you now say: "But how can we become well-known if you won't let us have an article?" the answer is, sorry, Wikipedia is not here to help promote new things, the job of an encyclopedia is to describe things that are already established and well known. Your Council may qualify for an article in time, after it has become established and been the subject of independent comment, but not yet.

There is another problem, in that you are connected with the organisation, so that in writing about it you have a conflict of interest. In order to maintain the neutral point of view which is essential for a Wikipedia article, it is preferable that articles are not written by those concerned. (If you now say: "But nobody knows about it yet except us", that merely confirms that it is not yet notable). It is not impossible to write acceptably about your own organisation, but it requires great care: see the advice in User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you and WP:Amnesia test. If you consider that advice, I think you will agree that your Council is not yet ready for an article.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:03, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 18:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]