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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ukraine Prosthetic Assistance Project (June 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DrStrauss was:

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Dr Strauss  talk  10:21, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. SwisterTwister  talk  17:42, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. Although a draft gives a limited amount of protection, it does not prevent deletion on spamming or copyright grounds. 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 project, press releases, 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 project claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * There is nothing in the text to show why it is notable. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, funding or expenditure. Your text is full of claims about what UPAP claims to do, but verifiable hard facts about the project are non-existent
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * The article consists almost entirely of promotional claims about what they have done and supposed "results" which lack any sources or verification.


 * 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 spamlinks to the organisation.
 * The tone is promotional. A couple of examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: professionals, who travel to Ukraine as volunteers and who are leaders in the fields, in their respective countries and globally, and have made outstanding contributions into the areas of prosthetics and rehabilitation... will be provided with high-performance prostheses.
 * the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or 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.
 * It seems likely that you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it. In particular, if you work directly or indirectly for the project, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the project or organisation, you are writing about, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:     . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

I may be able to restore an edited version of the text if you wish, but first you need to Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:12, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Make sure that that UPAP meets the notability criteria linked above and that you can find independent third party sources for your text
 * Read this guidance. You may find it easier to start from scratch than try to salvage the existing text
 * Either way, you must answer my COI query
 * Thanks for your reply. A couple of further comments
 * Note that not all your suggested refs meet the criteria I've mentioned in the first bullet point.For instance, the first is based on interviews with people linked to the project, not independent sources.
 * References should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Ukrainian language refs are permitted, but on English-language Wikipedia, English is preferred
 * the world needs to know about this effort&mdash;of course that's what everyone promoting things here says, but it's not a criterion. Our requirement is for neutral referenced text that shows that the notability criteria are satisfied
 * I'll shortly post an edited version of the deleted text here for you to work on
 * I note your COI comment; since you are close to the project, you need to be careful to check that what you write is impartial
 * Jimfbleak - talk to me?  05:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I made these edits. Note that I've removed all of the images because none were appropriately licensed for Wikipedia, and did not appear to be public domain. I guess that you won't be happy with the spelling of your capital as "Kiev". However, that is currently the English name, and while usage may change in the future, we have to follow trends, not start them. Thus we have Kiev, Munich, Rome, and not the local names Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:18, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I made these edits. As I indicated above, you should not use bare urls for refs. I've fixed some of them, you need to do the rest. Also provide a translation for those that are not in English, I've done that for ref 7, you need to translate the rest. You need to add categories. I've added "Prosthetics", but you should add others. You don't need to keep the one I've added, just an example. You'll find it easier to do categories if you enable HotCat (click "Preferences" at the top of your screen, then the "Gadgets" tab, look at "Editing" section). When you have done the above, move the article back to its original title with the "Move" tab and we will see what happens Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC)