User talk:Caritas Colombiana

Your article Cáritas Colombiana
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Cáritas Colombiana to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. GigglesnortHotel (talk) 15:01, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Caritas Colombiana


A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Caritas Colombiana, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Deli nk (talk) 15:43, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization, person or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 22:13, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

This is the English-language Wikipedia
Por favor, no contribuya con textos en español a la Wikipedia en inglés. En cambio, sus contribuciones en español serán muy bienvenidas en la Wikipedia en español.

Please do not contribute text in Spanish to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at the Spanish Wikipedia.

JohnCD (talk) 22:17, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Advice
The first thing to explain is that Wikipedia is not a place for organizations, or people, to tell the world about themselves, or post copies of their promotional literature. There are sites like Facebook for that, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which is quite different.

As explained in the block notice above, Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only who are personally responsible for them, and usernames which are the names of groups or organizations are not permitted.

So, in order to edit, you need to register a new account. Your username may be based on your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it should not be the name of any other living person. A username of the form "Andres at Cáritas" would be acceptable, and would serve to declare your affiliation. If more than one person wishes to edit, all are welcome, but each must have their own account.

The text you provided was largely copied from your website. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copied text without a formal copyright release, as described in WP:Donating copyrighted materials, but this text would in any case be unacceptable because, as I explained above, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free notice-board for organizations to tell the world about themselves.

The test for inclusion in Wikipedia is called Notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Youtube, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also Notability (summary). This test applies to non-commercial and "good causes" too - see Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause.

Even with a new individual username, in any editing about Cáritas Colombia you would have, from Wikipedia's point of view, a Conflict of interest and should read that page (Spanish: es:Wikipedia:Conflicto de interés) and the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. COI editing is discouraged, because it is hard for people to maintain the necessary neutral point of view about a subject they are involved with, and because they think of what the subject wants to say, not what a general encyclopedia reader might want to know; but it is possible, if you are careful.

If you want to proceed,
 * Read WP:Your first article.
 * Collect independent references such as press coverage (independent, not press releases). Independent references are necessary to show notability, but also so that an article can be written which is more than just the organization's story about itself.
 * Use WP:Articles for creation to help you make draft, which you can submit for review by an uninvolved user, who will either accept it or give you feedback.
 * When writing, concentrate less on the organization's vision, mission statement etc and more on what it has actually achieved. You can link to the website so that the interested reader can find out more.
 * Write in your own words, not copying from the website.

Here are some other pages that you might find helpful:
 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I am sorry if this is all more difficult than you expected, but if Wikipedia allowed people simply to post copies of their websites, it would be no more useful than Facebook as a work of reference.

The Spanish Wikipedia is a separate organization with its own rules and guidelines, but the general approach is similar, and the advice above will be useful when writing an article there.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)