User talk:Gmap1234

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Speedy deletion nomination of Gender in Mine Action


A tag has been placed on Gender in Mine Action, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Finngall  talk  16:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Advice
I deleted it for the third time; it had the same problems. I have also protected it against recreation, to allow you time to write a proper article, in Draft space. . When you have done so, you may either ask me or another administrator to review it.

The basic problems are: First, a large part of the article remains dedicated to explaining the importance of the underlying problem, which is covered elsewhere in WP. Second, too much of the article consists of a reprint from official documents. Third, it seems unclear that all of the sections are actually aspects where gender is of particular importance--the article is relying too much on the routine use of the phrase "men, women, and children", and the importance is only cited to one report , from Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining. Fourth, and most important, the notability of the organization depends not upon the importance of the problem, but about the notability of the work of the organization, and still are not in the article  references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements.

In addition, your user name indicates that you are representing an organization. This poses two problems: first, all only individual people can have Wikipedia accounts, so you need to pick another user name that indicates this. Second, and more important, I remind you of our rules on Conflict of Interest. If you are associated with the organization as a paid editor, you must declare this. See our Terms of Use, Section 4, "Paid contributions without disclosure. In addition, Wikipedia may not be used for the purposes of promotion-- we are not a directory. Our articles describe the subject, not advocate for it or praise it, and are directed not to prospective clients of contributors, but to the general public, who may want the sort of information found in encyclopdias.   DGG ( talk ) 20:45, 16 March 2015 (UTC)