Editorial Policy

Editorial Policy

How content on this site is written, reviewed, and held to account. One author. One standard.

Last updated: June 2026

Who writes here

Every article on WarmTexts is written by Wren Taylor. There is no content team, no freelance contributors, and no outsourced writing. What you read here comes from one person who built this site because she has spent years maintaining close relationships entirely through words, across distance and time zones, and wanted to do that well.

That background is not a content angle. It is the reason every message on this site gets held to a specific standard before it makes the cut.

The send test

Every message on this site is evaluated by a single question before it is published: would a real person actually send this to someone they love?

If the answer is not a clear yes, it does not go in. This rules out:

  • Generic openers that could apply to any person in any situation
  • Messages written to fill word counts rather than to be sent
  • Phrasing that sounds like a greeting card from 1994
  • Anything that reads like it was generated by a tool that has never felt anything
The standard is not perfection. It is specificity. A message that sounds like it came from a real person, written for a real moment, is always better than one that sounds technically correct and emotionally inert.
Research and sourcing

Message and occasion articles do not require citations. They are written from direct experience and judgment, and are evaluated by the send test above.

Blog articles are different. Any factual claim in a blog post must trace to a named, verifiable source: peer-reviewed research, published survey data from a named organization, a book by a named author, or reporting from an identifiable publication. The standard applies to every claim, not just the ones that feel uncertain.

Sources that are not acceptable as evidence:

  • Anonymous blog posts or forum opinions
  • Vague references to “studies show” without naming a study
  • Brand marketing copy cited as independent fact
  • Other messages and wishes sites used as primary sources
  • AI-generated summaries or training data assumptions

All sources linked in blog articles are live-checked before publication. If a link breaks after the fact and cannot be replaced, the claim it supports is removed.

Independence

WarmTexts is monetised through Google AdSense display advertising only. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored articles, no paid placements, and no commercial arrangements that influence what gets written or recommended here. If something is linked to on this site, it is because it is genuinely relevant to the content.

Corrections

If something on this site is factually wrong, please say so. Corrections are taken seriously and acted on quickly. A corrected article will have its publication date updated and, where the error was meaningful, a brief note at the bottom acknowledging what changed and why.

To flag an error, please get in touch.

A note on AI

The messages on this site are not AI-generated. They are written by a person who reads them back, says them out loud, and asks whether she would actually send them to someone she cares about before putting them on a page.

The volume of generic, interchangeable message content online is part of what this site exists to push back against. Holding to a human standard is not a marketing claim. It is the whole point.