User talk:Kindkitchen

KIND Kitchen
A tag has been placed on KIND Kitchen, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of KIND Kitchen and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Finngall  talk  21:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Please read Wikipedia's minimum criteria for starter articles and Wikipedia's notability criteria for organizations and companies before recreating the article. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 21:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * In reply to your note on Talk:KIND Kitchen, there are multiple issues here:
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising medium or a provider of free web space. Articles need to maintain a neutral point of view, whereas your was promotional in tone.
 * Subjects or articles need to meet certain notability guidelines; the more specific guidelines for organizations can be found here. This is established by providing verifiable information that can be referenced from independent reliable sources.
 * we strongly discourage contributions where the editor has a conflict of interest.
 * I hope this helps. -- Finngall  talk  22:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

April 2008
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The KIND Kitchen is a collective of individuals serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.

Mission
The KIND kitchen distributes free whole foods as well as providing holistic information to support community connectedness for gathering participants.

Focus of KIND Kitchen Project
The KIND Kitchen project focused on engaging individual members and supporting growth and development of leaders through a network of peer organizers.

KIND Kitchen is a community-development project that has been traveling to festivals and youth activism events such as the OM Festival and Active Resistance since 1996. The kitchen was established as a harm reduction project focused on working with youth at risk. The kitchen is currently and has been a 100% volunteer driven organization.

The kitchen is run as a collective and has attended community gatherings and distributed free food and information about ways for youth to become involved in their civic society. In an aim to reduce food security issues locally and internationally through education and action.

What is a Traveling Community Kitchen
A traveling community kitchen does not differ widely from a community kitchen other than it has no set "home base".


 * Community Kitchen: A community kitchen is an publicly accessible environment where anyone can cook meals for themselves and/or their families. Community kitchens will often have a small access or membership fee, and can have kitchen groups where people meet regularly to cook meals together.  They are often used to stretch people’s dollars, but they also function as a community gathering point.  In some cases, community kitchens are also used to train those in need in the culinary arts, so that those who were once hungry can become professional chefs, and feed their family well.  There are a number of community kitchens in towns and cities across Ontario. OAFB

Festivals Attended

 * OM Summer Solstice Festival
 * OM Reunion Project
 * Active Resistance
 * Active Resistance 98

Research
Community began in the kitchen PDF

Also See
Food Not Bombs

Definitions

 * focalizers: organizers and facilitators of the kitchen and its volunteers

Question
Since your organization doesn't appear to meet the notability guidelines, we don't need an article about it. Even if your organization did meet the guidelines, it wouldn't be appropriate for you to write about it; the conflict of interest guidelines ask all of us not to write about ourselves or our organizations. Now that you know that you won't be able to write an article about your organization, do you still want a new account? What kinds of useful edits do you see yourself making in the future? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 03:26, 5 April 2008 (UTC)