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Speedy deletion nomination of Women and the Brain
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A tag has been placed on Women and the Brain, 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.
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editYou can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. I deleted your article because
- it did not 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 organisation, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references of any kind
- I couldn't see any claim of notability. There was no indication of membership, funding, expenditure, where your headquarters are or even what country/countries you operate in. For all we are told, your organisation could be three people meeting in the pub.
- it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Half your article consisted of your aims, with no actual facts, the second half consisted of a list of people, some of whom may be notable (Katie Couric has a Wikipedia article so she is). It's pointless putting their qualifications in, either they meet our notability guidelines for people, or they don't, adding their degrees just looks spammy
- the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. 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. 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.
- If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. That's particularly the case if you have you have a financial stake in promoting this topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization, directly or indirectly, to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
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It's not the worse I've seen, and if you want to try again, I'll post the deleted text to a user subpage for you to work on, just let me know. Note that
- You must respond to my COI query when you do so.
- You need to check that your organisation meets the notability criteria linked in the first bullet point above. If it does not, there is no point recreating, it will just be deleted again.
The deletion may seem harsh, but I'm not unsympathetic, which is why I've explained in detail here without being asked, very unusual for me. There is some urgency here, since I'm going abroad in a couple of days and I'm unlikely then to take any action until I return in two weeks
I hope this helps