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Some suggestions I hope you will find helpfulHi Dan, First of all thank you so much for your part in improving the BKWSU article and getting more admin and independent editor attention on it. I decided to come back to life because things seem to have got kind of stuck and I may be able to help. I'm not here to promote any point of view with respect to the article but to see if I can restore a working cooperative environment again. Currently it seems that the article is in a kind of lock-down, at least with respect to COI editors, but I can see that there are good reasons for this and given the article's history of disruption I hope you agree that a strongly monitored and policed article is actually a good thing. I hope you also appreciate that to effectively police an article the editors and admins that have kindly volunteered to do this must remain impartial and beyond any possible accusation that they are taking sides. In particular, if an admin is going to carry out admin tasks, such as blocking, they have to follow WP:INVOLVED, which may explain why admins may appear to be reluctant to offer any editorial input to the article when you ask them. Firstly I suggest accepting the WP:COI status if you haven't already. Although simple membership of or employment by and organisation doesn't in itself imply a conflict of interest a style of editing, by itself, that seems to promote a topic does. I definitely thought that some areas of the article looked promotional in tone and gave undue weight to achievements that could be construed as puffery. And that's from someone who also has a COI! I appreciate this may not have been intentional and you were doing the best job you could, but that is the nature of COI. It is also not a death sentence or a mantle of shame. Even Jimbo Wales has fallen foul of COI accusations [1]. The COI restrictions may seem onerous but the way I read the situation right now is that there is a choice here. Either the article is impartially policed with restrictions on any editors that mainly edit BK articles, or, the article remains the battleground it was. I know which option I prefer! It may take a long to to make simple contributions to the article but since the article has taken 8 years already, what's the rush? You need consensus from more than one impartial editor. This makes sense to me. If one editor alone passed your contributions then if there was any dispute about the article's neutrality etc, justified or dramatised, then that one editor would be implicated. On the other hand if each contribution was subject to community approval then it would be possible to identify disruptive challenges as being such i.e. if some guy comes along and starts shouting that the page reads like an advert, it was written according to the BKs agenda, etc then it really, really, really helps if the article doesn't read like an advert and doesn't look like it was written according to a some BK agenda. How to get consensus? There are several routes for this. I also found that posting in the project pages for NRMs were a bit unproductive. There are some things you can do to maximise the likelihood that someone will respond. Lets take a look at your recent post in the Spirituality project [2],
OK there are several problems with this request. First of all your are indicating that you disagree with your COI status and some editor is unjustifiably giving you are hard time over it. This is going to put anyone off straight away. They may be happy to proof-read something but they certainly don't want to wade into some dispute over it. Also any perceived inability to accept Wikipedia's guidelines is going to sound alarm bells. What if you don't accept their input either? Then the second half the sentence, "make a push to get a few editors together to get the article expanded". The word, "push", is also going to sound alarm bells. Push what? A point of view? In the context of the first half of the sentence it looks like you may want editors to rally in your favour. OK, this is a creative expansion of what you actually said but people can and do read between the lines and it is useful to be able to anticipate and avoid this. The final part is a bit of an ask, "get the article expanded". It kind of implies a lot of work. You already have some content to propose, you just need external input to check it meets Wikipedia's standards. The best way to get input from other editors is to make the request as painless and simple as possible. Something someone can just look at and say "yes" or "no" to. To achieve this keep the requests small, but not so small that it results in lots of separate requests. You may need to feel your way to find the amount of text other editors are happy considering on the various help pages. Have you tried the standard edit request page for requesting COI edits? Just post the request for the article with a link to the proposed sandbox text for approval/disapproval and other responses. But please feel free to feedback and ask any further questions. I apologise in advance if this post has maybe been a bit too "Let's be Frank" for an introduction ;) I hope you found some of these comments useful. Please respond on this page. I have it on my watch list and I like to see threads on the same page, whatever page that is. Best wishes Bksimonb (talk) 09:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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