User talk:Gardiner3rd

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Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants
No matter what it does or doesn't do, no organization ever gets an automatic Wikipedia inclusion freebie just because it exists — a Wikipedia article is a thing that an organization earns by being the subject of media coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the organization itself. And furthermore, a Wikipedia article can never be written or structured as an advertisement; it must be written and structured as a neutral encyclopedia article. And finally, if you're directly involved with the organization then you need to familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest rules.

It's not that the organization can never have an article — but its eligibility for an article is subject to our rules about writing tone and quality of sourcing, and is not an entitlement that the group automatically gets just because it exists. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 20 October 2015 (UTC)