User talk:ISTA1924

International Seed Testing Association
Hi, please change your user name. Using the names of companies or organisations as usernames is seen as spam, and I'll block this account fairly soon.

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There were several issues with the article as it looked when it was deleted.
 * It did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts or show that it meets the notability guidelines for organizations and companies. Your article gave no references at all, let alone independent ones.
 * It was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, and contentious claims should have in-line references. The article was written in the first person, which is not encyclopaedic. It had unsourced claims such as inextricably linked... truly a global network... unbiased, non-profit,objective and fair and other similar unsupported claims.
 * The lack of wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles made it look as if this was copy-and-pasted from a source which may not have a public domain or creative commons licence. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy, but I didn't check since it failed on the grounds given above anyway. If it was copied from, say, your own website, please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright isn't sufficient. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage of the centre in reliable, independent secondary sources), you can, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

Hope this helps, let me know if there is anything that is unclear.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  14:31, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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I'm not sure what you mean with regard to redirects. Once your main article is fixed, you can redirect from, eg ISTA using the text  #redirect International Seed Testing Association  If you mean wikilinks, that just means putting eg Cambridge instead of unlinked "Cambridge", for example.

The UN article is actually pretty good, lots of references and decent encyclopaedic text. The FAO isn't wonderful, with external links in the text, but it isn't bad enough to be deleted by consensus, let alone a speedy.

 Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  15:35, 29 August 2011 (UTC)