User talk:Dorkatz1

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Happy editing! Deb (talk) 09:06, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Draft 1 - Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Draft 1 - Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, 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 Wikipedia: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 deleting administrator. Gbawden (talk) 08:17, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Hello, Dorkatz1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.Deb (talk) 09:06, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

your deleted article

Thanks for your message. I looked again at the draft and it appears that you've been provided with a template for the article, and I don't think it has come from the Article Wizard. Please tell me who gave you this. Also please tell me what your connection is with the subject of your article outside Wikipedia - how did you hear about them? Deb (talk) 11:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. This is often a problem for new users, who think they know how to create an article and go straight ahead and do it without practising with minor edits first. That's what I'd recommend you to do before you try to recreate the article - get some practice. Make some minor edits, which will quickly lead to bigger ones and eventually to the ability to create articles that don't fall foul of the guidelines. You'll find the article wizard handy. Deb (talk) 08:04, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh, one other piece of advice I nearly forgot. Don't ever put external links into the article text. That's not how we cite sources and it will usually get you into difficulty. Deb (talk) 08:06, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

To clarify, I don't normally restore the text of an article when it's been deleted as a G11. There would have to be a very good reason, and "I didn't keep a copy" isn't a good reason. Deb (talk) 07:50, 19 October 2020 (UTC)