User talk:WashingtonInstitute

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society


A tag has been placed on Draft:Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. creffett (talk) 00:06, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Hi there, we created a Wiki page for the Washington Institute for Business, Government & Society but it got blocked. We are a non-profit in DC. I see plenty of non-profits with WIKI pages. What do we need to do differently please? Please help me with...

Hakan Ozsancak WashingtonInstitute (talk) 14:42, 1 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Please see the block notice and follow the instructions to request a new username. You will also need to select a single individual to exclusively operate this account, as accounts cannot be shared or be a group account. You seem to have a fundamental misconception about what Wikipedia is.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place to merely tell about a subject.
 * Wikipedia treats nonprofits no differently than for-profits; organizations do not have "WIKI pages", organizations have Wikipedia articles about them. All article subjects must be shown with independent reliable sources to meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability, in the case of an organization, that is written at WP:ORG.  Wikipedia is not interested in what an organization wants to say about itself, only in what independent sources state.  Writing about your own organization is strongly discouraged here, please review the conflict of interest policy and the paid editing policy.  In order for you to be successful in writing about your own organization, you would have to forget everything you know about it and only write based on the content of independent sources, excluding primary sources like the organization website, staff interviews, press releases, or anything similar. Most people in your position cannot do that.   331dot (talk) 16:34, 1 July 2019 (UTC)