User talk:Wetrainyouth

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Wetrainyouth", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

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October 2014
Unfortunately, there were several problems with the article Silver Lining Villages. Firstly, it did not read at all like a neutral encyclopaedia article: it was clearly written to publicise the work of the organisation, and promote it as a good cause. That is contrary to several Wikipedia policies and guidelines, as a Wikipedia article must be written from a neutral point of view, and no page on Wikipedia must exist to promote or publicise any organisation. Secondly, most of the article was not even about Silver Lining Villages: it was about the background of the problem that Silver Lining Villages seeks to address, apparently with the purpose of persuading us that Silver Lining Villages is a good cause doing god work, but persuading readers of a point of view is no part of Wikipedia's purpose. Thirdly, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information about anything, but only a collection of information about things which satisfy certain notability criteria. The principal requirement is that the subject should have substantial coverage in reliable sources independent of the organisation the article is about. Examples of sources which are not reliable are Facebook pages and Wikipedia articles, because anyone can write them. Examples of sources which are not independent are organisation's web site, its Facebook page, and the web site of any other organisation that works with the organisation. There was no evidence in the article that the organisation satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines, but I thought there could be evidence around, which had not been incorporated into the article, so I made some searches for sources about the organisation, and nothing I found came anywhere near to satisfying Wikipedia's requirements. Almost all the references in the article didn't even mention Silver Lining Villages, and some of them were unreliable sources, such as Wikipedia. In a Google search for "Silver Lining Villages", the first hits I found were several pages on Silver Lining Villages' own web site, Facebook, Wikipedia, six Linkedin pages, and the site of an organisation that exists to support and serve "nonprofit organizations". Not a single one of those is a reliable source independent of the organisation the article was about. Other searches produced similar results.

Since the article was promotional in nature, I have deleted it in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. I think it only fair to let you know that in my estimation any article on the subject would be likely to be deleted fairly soon, even if it were written in a non-promotional way, as I do not think that the subject satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines. I have little doubt that if it did, the searches I made would have produced at least some suitable sources. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:30, 22 October 2014 (UTC)