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Speedy deletion nomination of Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV)

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Speedy deletion of "Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV)"

Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV), a page you created, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is obvious advertising or promotional material..

You are welcome to contribute content that complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you. FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 02:11, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

May 2016

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 02:56, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV)

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A tag has been placed on Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV), 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, product, group, service or person 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 removed 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. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 03:04, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, CirqueGirl. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 03:07, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV)

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A tag has been placed on Leadership Academy of Nevada (LANV), 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, product, group, service or person 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 removed 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. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 05:32, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

You have already been given advice above about declaring any conflict of interest you may have. I can't see where you have replied to that requestt. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the WikimediaTerms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:CirqueGirl . The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CirqueGirl|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article:

• you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the school or a related organisation or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, logs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the school claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Your previous drafts had no in-line refs at all, and the refs you listed at the end of the page were your own sites, not independent third-party sources.
• You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews. Your text was full of unsourced promotional claims, eg unique model... challenging and personal educational experience... an encouraging environment... Their curriculum provides the foundation for the strong character necessary to become a principled leader. , but you didn't bother with real facts like the numbers of staff and students!
• You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. If you decide to try again, write a draft first, which is good practice ayway, and let me know when you want me to have a look. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:30, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Jimfbleak, I haven't found how to put the COI designation on my User Page. How do I do it? Thank you for your help, I am very new to this so I am still trying to learn everything. CirqueGirl (talk) 16:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Copy this as you see it, fill in the details and save {{paid|user=CirqueGirl|employer= |client= }}. The ping to notify me above didn't work because you have to link to my user page and sign your message in the same edit, whereas you added the link after Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Jimfbleak, I haven't been paid by anyone to create this page. I started this project when I was a student at this school as a leadership project. It was completely voluntary. I am no longer associated with the school. Thank you for all of your help. CirqueGirl (talk) 18:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Jimfbleak, What can I do now to help publish this page? CirqueGirl (talk) 06:06, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't really know what I can add to the guidance above. You need hard facts, such as student and staff numbers, income and expenditure and verifiable student outcomes rather than opinions, aims and vague claims, and you need proper independent third-party sources. Have a look at Eton College. It's not perfect, but it might give you some idea what an article should look like. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:09, 20 September 2020 (UTC)