Kitchen Garden Foundation

July 2023

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Cullen328 (talk) 07:58, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

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Request reason:

This page is not intended to promote a business or product but rather to provide a factual summary of a not-for-profit organisation. The organisation would not receive any compensation or monetary benefit from this page existing. I understand the terms of the block placed on my account, and acknowledge that language I may have used may appear to be promoting or advertising, and as such I will refrain from using such language and maintain a neutral, unbiased reporting of the article topic.

Decline reason:

What you call "provide a factual summary" is considered promotional on Wikipedia. You don't have to be selling something, soliciting customers, or engaged in for-profit activity. Wikipedia is not a place for organizations to tell the world about themselves, even if they do good work. Wikipedia articles summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about(in this case) an organization, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable organization. Wikipedia is not interested in what an organization says about itself, only in what others unconnected with the organization choose to say about it and what makes it important/significant/influential as they see it(not as the organization itself sees it).
You misunderstand the paid editing policy; the orgnanization does not have to recieve a monetary benefit. The paid editing policy refers to the editor themselves, and doesn't just involve receiving money. If you are employed by the organization, or even an unpaid volunteer, it is considered "paid editing". You do not need to be specifically paid to edit. Volunteer work can still count as "paid editing" as typically volunteer work is put on a resume to obtain future employment- one is compensated with the experience You won't be unblocked to, in the short term, edit about your organization. If that is your only goal here, this is the end of the road. If you are interested in being a more general contributor and editing about topics for which you have no conflict of interest. please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 08:21, 1 August 2023 (UTC)