IWIthinktank

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:The IWI: Institute for Feminist Policy Reform

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A tag has been placed on Draft:The IWI: Institute for Feminist Policy Reform, 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 https://www.iwi.org.uk/taking-action. (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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• Deleted per WP:CSD#G11 as spam, copyvio noted. – Athaenara ✉ 01:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hello, IWIthinktank. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. – Athaenara ✉ 01:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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– Athaenara ✉ 01:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

I would like to request that my block be lifted from my account. I understand that my article has been deleted and that I was blocked due to concern that my article was advertising and had a COI. I had in not finished working on my article and it was in no way ready for submission for approval. I had left it in draft mode as I was still working on it, somehow it must have become submitted for approval. I was actually collating my sources and was working on adding them into my draft article and was definitely going to disclose my COI. I understand that in the state that it was in it would appear that I did not adhere to Wikipedia's submission guidelines. But I hope to be able to complete my article before submission so that I can address the issues raised. Again I stress that I was not ready to submit my article for publication and am aware and acknowledge the issues raised by the administrator and assure you that I had no intention of publishing the article as it was presented. IWIthinktank (talk) 17:48, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Per below. Unfinished advertising is still advertising, and your draft was fundamentally incompatible with the purpose of Wikipedia. MER-C 19:20, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

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Drafts are still visible to other editors in the Recent Changes feed, and are not immune from deletion processes. Your draft was blatant promotion including things like "our mission"(which is wholly unencyclopedic as it is impossible to independently verify an organization's "mission") and describing what your organization does. Wikipedia is not for merely telling about an organization. Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage state about article subjects that meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability(in this case, that of a notable organization). Wikipedia is not interested in what an organization wants to say about itself. To be successful in writing about your own organization, you will essentially need to forget everything you know about it and only write based on what independent sources state. The vast majority of people cannot do that, I have yet to see it happen in my many years here. Are there any subjects that are unrelated to your conflict of interest that you want to write about?

The block does not mention this, but I think you will need to change your username; if you make another unblock request, please use {{Unblock-un|user=new username|reason=your reason here}} to do so(highlight and copy when viewing this page, then open the edit window and paste, filling in the information). 331dot (talk) 18:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC)