An article you recently created, Made in NYC (nonprofit), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. ... discospinster _talk 01:30, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, Made in NYC (nonprofit), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. YODADICAE👽 23:33, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Elady12345. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Elady12345. The template ((Paid)) can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: ((paid|user=Elady12345|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName)). If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. YODADICAE👽 23:57, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Praxidicae:

I am not being compensated at all for this — I just wanted to write an article and I saw that a nonprofit I know about didn't have a page yet so I thought it would be a fun exercise to put an article together. I am not currently employed by anybody, I'm just a student that has some free time now that it's summer.

Also, I have been reaching out to various members in the Wikipedia community for advise for how to better write and edit the article. My Wikipedia mentor suggested that I remove external links, shorten the quotes, and find an additional media article mentioning Made in NYC. Another member that approved the page and moved it to the Mainspace said that I should add categories and reference the page on other Wikipedia articles so that it's not considered an "Orphan." I've done all my own research, downloading data spreadsheets from the NY City Council Discretionary Funding database to find evidence of their funding as well as finding NY Times articles and other sites to verify everything I write. I'm trying to be as factual as possible in everything I write and contribute as best as I can to the Wikipedia community. Is there anything in the article that I should change or anything else I can improve upon? Which sources am I using that are unreliable?

Elady12345 (talk) 00:36, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Praxidicae, to add on to what Elady said above, the sources that appeared to me at a very quick glance to meet GNG are the NYT and the New York Business Journal; some other options were listed at this thread on my talk page. Would you mind taking a second look and clarifying any issues that remain? ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 16:23, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As Praxidicae has not replied here, I'm going to go ahead and restore the article based on my own judgement that it is notable. Another editor will come along and review it as part of our new page patrol process; this can sometimes take up to a few weeks, but you'll get a notification when it happens. Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 00:59, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Made in NYC (nonprofit), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 01:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]