User talk:Alafia7

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Berkshire Community Foundation
Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you want to get involved, but I'm afraid there's a problem with the article you created,  Berkshire Community Foundation. It appears to be an advertisement. It's a common mistake for new users to make, but Wikipedia isn't a forum for advertising, and there's no real way to advertise your business, organization, or web site on Wikipedia, no matter how worthy it might be, because under the conflict of interest guidelines, we all agree not to write about ourselves or our own businesses. Don't worry- if your endeavor really is notable, then it's inevitable that someone without a conflict of interest will read about it in reliable sources and become interested enough to create an article about it. I've deleted the advertisement for you, and if you're interested in sticking around to help us write an encyclopedia, you're entirely welcome- check out our help page for some good advice about how to contribute usefully to the encyclopedia. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 10:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I am sorry to see that you have deleted my article. But I understand that you have your guidelines. I would like to still create a page about Berkshire Community Foundation. I would appreciate very much if you could point out what was the biggest mistake I have made. Shall I rewrite the text and then let you to go through it before I submit it? Sorry, I am a new user and orientation in this 'talk' communication is not intuitive and natural to me at all. I do not even know if you get this message. Please let me know, I would like to create a correct article. Alafia7
 * Please read the Business FAQ that should answer your questions, and please remember to sign your posts in talk pages with four tildes (~) . -- Alexf(talk) 13:43, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The biggest mistake you made was in writing about an organization in which you have a personal connection. After that, the other problems were the fact that this organization does not appear to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria, and the article lacks any reliable, independent sources at all.  Those two problems are not likely to arise when you write about subjects in which you do not have  personal connection, because you're more likely to know about subjects because you've read about them in outside sources.  The promotional tone is a serious problem, but an article with a promotional tone could be written by an uninvolved editor using the available sources. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)