User talk:BrooksieG

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February 2024

Hi, I'm CodeTalker. I want to let you know that I have reverted the changes that you made to the Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve article, because it was written in a promotional style that is entirely inappropriate for Wikipedia, and the changes were generally unsourced. Furthermore, since you have stated that you are the director of the Biosphere Foundation, you have what Wikipedia considers a conflict of interest, so you should not edit this article directly. Instead you should first declare your conflict of interest; instructions can be found at WP:DCOI. Secondly, you should propose any changes that you wish to make to the article on the article's talk page here; instructions for making edit requests can be found at WP:EDITREQ. Another uninvolved editor without a COI can then evaluate your proposed changes and make the edits. Be sure to provide reliable sources that support the changes you wish to make. In general, secondary sources are better than information that comes directly from the Biosphere Foundation; see WP:RS and WP:SECONDARY for more information about this. Please understand that the purpose of Wikipedia is to summarize what published sources have previously published, not to promote or "tell the world" about your organization; see WP:PROMO. Thank you. CodeTalker (talk) 05:57, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explainer! My interest was to update and have correct information published. I note your comment on 'promotional style'. My question is whether, if I removed references to the Foundation and wrote solely about the Biosphere Reserve, would that be more acceptable and would I still remain conflicted? Also, if the article is about the Reserve, does the Foundation then become a source reference?

In saying all this, how can we update a protected template with citations? It seems that someone has the keys to this page and we have no idea who it is.

Thanks BrooksieG (talk) 07:29, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the exact relationship between the Foundation and the Reserve, but the article says that the Foundation manages the Reserve, so I think the director of the Foundation has a clear COI with the Reserve article. Again, I would recommend that you not edit the article directly, but instead make edit requests on the article talk page to allow a non-COI editor to evaluate them and make the changes to the article. It is important to provide reliable, secondary sources to support any changes that you want to make. For example, a newspaper article about the reserve would be a good reference. The website or other information published directly by the Reserve or Foundation would not be, except for very simple non-interpreted information like an address or a person's name; see WP:PRIMARY.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "update a protected template with citations". As far as I can see, the article is not protected, and if it were protected you wouldn't have been able to make the edits that you made on 24 February. CodeTalker (talk) 16:19, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]