User talk:Banjoanne

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:09, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Banjoanne. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch, 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, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:09, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch. Thanks! DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Feathered Pipe Ranch (December 15)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for reviewing the Wikipedia draft. I am a little stumped now, as to how to better source this piece - and not sure what extra steps I can take to ensure that it does not read like any kind of advertisement. I had the piece reviewed by an independent professional editor. As for conflict of interest, my relationship with the organization is that I have been a volunteer there for several years, but it is not my employer, etc.
 * I'd much appreciate assistance with understanding which sources I used are not considered independent or reliable; I stayed away from travel advocacy websites, reviews, etc. and largely worked with information from local Montana newspapers, articles in Yoga Journal, and published books on related subjects. I did cite the Feathered Pipe Ranch website as one source and can certainly delete that.
 * Thanks for bearing with me as I learn how to do this right! Banjoanne (talk) 13:36, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Regarding your COI, it is clear that you have one (whether or not you are employed or paid by this organisation), and this needs to be disclosed. Please see the message I posted above, titled 'Managing a conflict of interest', and especially the 3rd bullet point starting 'disclose'.
 * It seems you may have have written this draft WP:BACKWARD, ie. first writing what you know about the subject, and then finding sources that support what you've written. Very common mistake, but a mistake all the same. Wikipedia articles should be written by first finding a few sources which meet the WP:GNG notability standard (meaning, secondary sources that are reliable and fully independent of the subject, and which have written about it in significant extent and detail), summarising what they say (without putting any positive 'spin' or other embellishments on it – that should help avoid any promotional tone or content), and citing those sources as you go so that the reader can always verify the information from its source.
 * You need only three solid sources to establish notability, and they should also by definition support most of the summarised content. If you need to cite additional sources to support individual facts here and there, you can and should of course add them, but it is almost never the case that a draft needs thirty sources when it is first written.
 * HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:55, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. I will work on revising appropriately and disclosing everything that is needed. Banjoanne (talk) 14:05, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi there -
 * I've dramatically revised and pruned back the submission - is it possible to have it reviewed again? Thanks! Banjoanne (talk) 09:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, it will be reviewed again, once you click on the blue 'resubmit' button, and a reviewer will come along at some point and take a look. First, though, you need to make the COI disclosure. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Banjoanne, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * I'm sorry for the confusion, but I don't understand what's needed with disclosure here. I am not paid for anything associated with the subject. Do I need to add an explicit statement that says that in the COI statement beyond what I already said, which is that I receive no financial benefits from my relationship with the retreat venue? I filled out that COI template this morning. Banjoanne (talk) 13:03, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I didn't see your attempted COI disclosure, because it isn't visible anywhere. You appear to have added a comment to the COI maintenance tag which I placed in the draft last month, but such comments are not supported by the template and don't therefore appear anywhere other than in the source code. In theory you may make your disclosure pretty much any which way you wish, but it is recommended that add a template to either your own user page, or the draft/article talk page, or better yet both, because those are the standard places where others look for such disclosures. Otherwise you may be hassled about this again by others who, like me, didn't spot your disclosure.
 * As for whether you need to make the generic COI disclosure or the specific paid-editing one, this isn't entirely clear. You say you volunteer at the venue, and a little bit of research on the web suggests you also have a senior role in the associated foundation, and in my (non-expert) opinion either or both of those puts you within the scope of the paid-editing rules. (By way of a parallel, interns, even unpaid ones, are covered by these rules.) From a practical point of view it makes little or no difference which type of COI you disclose. I tend to err on the side of caution, therefore if I were you I would disclose paid editing, even if you strictly speaking may not need to, rather than only disclose the generic COI and then it turns out you actually needed to disclose PAID. But at the end of the day, only you know the exact nature of your relationship with the subject, so I will leave it for you to decide which disclosure to make.
 * Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:01, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Many thanks - I really do appreciate the help. As a first-timer to doing this, I'm having a bit of a hard time deciphering some of the instructions. I'll try to do much better! I'll revisit this again soon. Again - thanks for helping hold my hand through this. Banjoanne (talk) 14:04, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Greetings!
 * I have used (I hope) the correct template for my full COI disclosure.
 * I did not use the 'paid editing' one because I couldn't in good conscience, since I am not and haven't ever been paid by the Feathered Pipe Foundation for anything, including creating an entry for the Feathered Pipe Ranch. I understand about erring on the side of caution, but I get tripped up over using the word "paid" as it isn't true.
 * If you can let me know the next step in moving this forward, I'd be most appreciative - thanks!
 * Anne Banjoanne (talk) 19:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Feathered Pipe Ranch (March 15)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Guessitsavis were:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Feathered Pipe Ranch and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:Feathered_Pipe_Ranch Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Guessitsavis&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Feathered_Pipe_Ranch reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 12:35, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying.
 * I confess, I'm at a loss, since my original draft had lots of sources and the feedback was that I had too many sources. I'll try again, but as someone who has worked in fields demanding careful sourcing, I really did scrub my sources for reliability and independence. It would be helpful for me to understand what exactly rings as "unreliable," for example, in my sourcing.
 * I dramatically pared down my initial draft which was quite comprehensive to stick to just the bare bones about a 5--year old retreat facility in Montana, where it's located, what happens there, and how it came into being.
 * I will look again, but I'm genuinely disheartened here as this is a "just the facts" article written in the formal tone that I see elsewhere on Wikipedia.
 * In any case, I thank you for your review.  Banjoanne (talk) 13:29, 15 March 2024 (UTC)