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Speedy deletion nomination of Women Together

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A tag has been placed on Women Together, 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, product, group, service or person 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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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its organisation. You provided no such references to support your text
• Apart from the link with the UN, there is no indication of why it is notable. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, funding or expenditure, but you don't even tell us where the headquarters are. None of the supposed awardees, board or companies are referenced or linked to Wikipedia articles.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

• Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: brining [sic] the first microcredit programs to Spain... effectively implement the programs... Dedicated to the creations of a more equal society, working strongly in favor of human rights and the fight against inequality, environmental conservation, health a support to the arts and culture and poverty eradication.
• there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. that's particularly the case when they are all spamlinks to your organisation.

• the article was created in a single edit without references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. 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. 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. I note that all the images were copyright violations and had been deleted (not by me)
• If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. 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.
• If you work directly or indirectly for or on behalf of the organisation, you are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. >Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:LifestyleDesignMedia. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LifestyleDesignMedia|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

You said It's an incredible thing which suggests that you are not the right person to write a neutral article. doesn't mean its bogus, much less that the wikipedia of such a foundation should be considered self-promotion. The fact that it's non-profit doesn't mean that you can write highly biased and non-factual text just because it's not a corporation. I'm not aware that I, or anyone else, has said it is bogus.

If you want to continue, you must first disclose any COI as indicated above. You should familiarise yourself with our rules, most of which I've linked to above and look at similar articles so that you know what you are doing. You should also start the article as a draft, rather that post directly as an article, since once you do that it will be assessed on our criteria Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:52, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

MY REPLY

Thanks for writing. Could you please confirm your name/handle for me? Unfortunately, several assumptions are very incorrect. I am not paid by this organization, much less to write a wikipedia article. I did come to know of the foundations work while living in one of the developing countries they have programs in...I was then introduced to people running other programs throughout Latin American and the Caribbean, as well as, others who had worked in India and Africa. What I couldn't believe is that this UN affiliated foundation, which has been working since 1996 had done such little press. They have a ton of work and I have seen photographs, programs that have been developed, etc. but they haven't dedicated themselves to any press. Through their association with the UN and companies in Spain (where the first micro-credit Women Together program began with La Caixa, Barcelona) they have helped -word of mouth - and with generous support from local business/families in the areas they have programs. Furthermore, the photos were handed to me from the people who covered their gala event this year, to which I was a witness, and those photos were permitted to be use for any content concerning the Foundation. I asked personally. I also understood that I should still give credit to the photographer, whether or not there was permission to use the photo. Then again, as I myself to photos, I will go ahead and upload those. The article is not at all to appear self-serving, which seems ironic for some of the junk one finds online, but of course I am someone who feels strongly that NGO's like this one should have the kind of press/ online information they deserve, which they haven't taken care because they're too busy...helping people!!! And still have to come to terms with the world we live in and how important "press" is...so that things like "speedy deleted" wikipedia pages, don't happen. I appreciate your advice. Could you please send me the original text from the original WT post...as it has vanished. I would like to work from what I already had. Thank you. --LifestyleDesignMedia (talk) 03:31, 15 June 2016 (UTC)