User talk:Toni of Paytron

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Toni of Paytron, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Hayat Foundation have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:22, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Advice regarding the page on Hayat Foundation

A Wikipedia article needs to be written from a neutral point of view, which is not the case with the page Draft:Hayat Foundation, as it is unambiguously written to persuade its readers that the Hayat Foundation is doing a good job, as well as promoting a particular point of view regarding cerebral palsy in Nigeria and related issues. You were lucky that the article was moved to draft space to give you a chance to work on it, rather than simply being deleted as purely promotional. If the page is to be accepted as an article it will need to be really radically rewritten, so that it does not read as an attempt to promote or advertise the organisation. If that does not happen, the page is very likely to be deleted. Also, if you are editing on behalf of the foundation then you need to read Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest, and if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid then the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require to state who is paying you and what your relationship to them is, whether you are an employee, a contractor, or whatever else. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:52, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you did tone down some of the most obviously promotional content of the draft after I posted the above message, but it still read as an unmistakable attempt to promote the organisation, so it has been deleted. It can be very difficult to write neutrally about something in which one is closely involved, as it can be difficult or impossible to stand back and see how one's own writing will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, and there is a tendency to perceive one's own position as more objective than it seems to others. That is one of the main reasons why Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest discourage writing on such a topic. Do you have a personal connection to the Hayat Foundation? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:00, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I happen to know Hayat Foundation, but I built my content from their website and some materials or contents I could find about them too. This is my first article, so I didn't expect it to be perfect but can you help me understand better how to come up with a neutral content. I actually followed your advice but it seems I'm not understanding you correctly.The editor who uses the pseudonym "Toni_of_Paytron" (talk) 09:00, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]