User talk:Dannyticknor

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Peer review: Hey there Danny! I really enjoyed reading your lead about Brigade and look forward to your new additions. SO far your lead is written very well and you have included sources already which is great. I look forward to reading more! Best regards, Raulcab (talk) 02:31, 24 March 2018 (UTC).

Response to Raul's Review: Hi Raul! Thank you for your comments! Hoping to add many more citations, preferably more credible sources! :) Thanks and good luck with your article! Dannyticknor (talk) 19:25, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Hey Raul! One more thing! Any suggestions on what to add/ what to improve, etc? Thanks Dannyticknor (talk) 19:56, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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Brigade Media
Hi Danny! — has some concerns over the Brigade Media article - one of which is that it comes across as too promotional. I've tagged them here so they can weigh in as well.

I've tweaked the lead to help give an example of sorts - here's what I did and why I changed things. Below is the original lead and my tweaked version:


 * Brigade Media, also known as Brigade, is a platform that aims to utilize political engagement from users and urge politicians to take action. This startup was formed on June 4, 2014, and founded by James Windon, Jason Putorti, John Thrall, Matt Mahan, and Miche Capone. Brigade Media was developed with the hope to bring the government and its citizens together through debates and petitions on controversial issues. The application is a non-partisan platform that intends to more easily brings the peoples' concerns to the nation's policymakers.


 * Brigade Media, also known as Brigade, is a civic technology platform that was formed on June 4, 2014, and founded by James Windon, Jason Putorti, John Thrall, Matt Mahan, and Miche Capone. The platform is intended to serve as a way for users to connect with others who share the same or similar views and voice their opinions, create debates, or organize petitions.This process is intended to make the users' concerns more visible to and influential towards United States' policymakers.

I changed the first sentence to start off with when it was formed and by whom- as well as a more specific explanation as to what it was, namely a non-partisan civic technology platform. This was already in the lead, but I wanted to pull it all to one lead introductory sentence. I then merged the "aims to" information with the one about the hopes - this is sort of the same information for the most part, so it can be merged without really losing a whole lot, as there's generally supposed to be more specific information in the lower parts of the article. The last sentence was then tweaked to show what the petitions and such are intended to go towards. I tried to reduce the usage of things like "hope for" since those can sometimes be seen as a little promotional.

I would recommend re-writing the impact section, as stating that it being heavily used by millennials is an accomplishment can be seen as original research. This could probably be relabeled as maybe results since it's more information about numbers and results with the app. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:52, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello  ! Thank you for also tagging  about the Brigade Media article concerns! I like the reshuffling that you have done to the lead section, in that it appears more factual and the use of "intending" rather than "hopes" comes off more neutral. Thank you for your recommendation in re-writing the millennial portion of the impact and accomplishments section. I agree that the statistics and such could be put under a Results section to further clarify. Also if I'm not mistaken, I believe  also thought the article seemed too promotional. Do any of you have any other suggestions? Dannyticknor (talk) 21:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Dannyticknor. I normally just post on another editor's talk page myself, but after seeing you're a student and the your adviser is, I asked her to broach the subject first. My main concerns when I come across student creations such as this is whether the student is more WP:NOTHERE than WP:HERE. I think these projects are great and lots of articles get improved or created through them. Sometimes, however, the students and their university professors might not be too familiar with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines, and their goals might not be the same as Wikipedia's.
 * I'm not sure if or how you're being graded for the class. Technically any page on Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at anytime, but most experienced editors will leave a draft or userspace draft alone out of deference to the person writing it unless there is a serious policy- / guideline-based problem (such as WP:COPYVIO and WP:BLP, etc.) which needs immediate addressing because it is assumed that other issues (particularly Wikipedia:Notability issues) will be sorted out when the draft is submitted to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for review. These same editors, however, will be much more proactive and bold when it comes to the mainspace. They will try and fix the things they believe need fixing, but may also feel certain parts need to be removed or the article should be scraped. Article creators or subjects do not have any final editorial control over article content and ideally articles are expected to be improved collaboratively. Obviously with so many cooks in the kitchen, there will be differences of opinion, but such things are expected to be resolved per WP:DR and the end result might not be to the student's liking or even an accurate reflection of the student's work.
 * That's why I don't think it's good for students in these projects to WP:MOVE their drafts to the mainspace themselves until after their course had concluded, and even then I would've advise that they submit the draft to AfC for a proper Wikipedia review (not just a review by their fellow classmates). Since this is already in the mainspace though, my only advice now is to view yourself as a WP:WIKIPEDIAN and it as an WP:ARTICLE because that is how others are going to be viewing things; in other words, it's no longer part of a class project and you're no longer a student, at least in a Wikipedia sense. If you want some more detailed feedback on the article, you can try WP:PR; sometimes, however, just posting a simple request at The Teahouse or even the talk page of a relevant WikiProject can get good results. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response ! I appreciate your input and will look to WP:PR and other relevant talk pages to get more feedback. Dannyticknor (talk) 14:12, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Non-free image use
Hi Dannyticknor. Non-free content such as File:The logo of Brigade Media.jpg can only be used in the article namespace per WP:NFCC. This means that such content cannot be used at User:Dannyticknor/sandbox as explained in WP:UP. I previously removed this file twice from your sandbox, but perhaps you didn't see (or understand) the edit sums that I left. Anyway, just time I'm posting here as well. Please don't re-add this file or any other non-free content to your sandbox again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:09, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry! I actually had no idea that adding the logo was a violation if in the sandbox. I won't do that again Dannyticknor (talk) 04:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC)