User talk:BrDanJoe

Community of the Gospel
I've seen your email. Now I'm going to introduce a third concern and that is a possible conflict of interest that you have with this article. I'm not asking you to confirm or deny this but, firstly your username suggests that you are a member of the community. Secondly, the edit summaries you have used and  suggest that you have more than passing knowledge of the community and issues in its past.
 * 1) Notability. This is defined at Notability (organizations and companies). What is needed is evidence, in the way of cited sources, that establish that this is a notable organisation.
 * 2) Sources. These are critical to the above. At the moment there are zero sources, the body's own website is not a reliable source.  What have others, independent of the community, written/said about it? I've had a quick look but I'm not seeing much, but then I'm not in the US so I'll be getting different search results. You may be able to provide loads. All this information is needed to verify what is written about the community.

I may, of course, be completely wrong in this but I think it's worth pointing out that editing articles where you have a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged. It can also lead to issues around ownership and neutrality of the article. The article is about the community, it's isn't an advert for the community and is not owned by the community. It needs to be neutral and reflect the good and the bad. I'm not saying it was wrong to remove the edit made in August 2023 as it was as equally unsourced as the rest of the article, but to ascribe the edit to a is not only not assuming good faith but suggests a desire (conscious or unconscious) to bury bad news.

So how to proceed. I would ask you to consider if you do have a conflict of interest, and, if so to declare it. You don't have to say what the conflict of interest is, but just to say that you have one. The next thing is to produce sources that establish and verify the notability of the community. If you don't have a conflict of interest then you can simply edit the article to include the sources (see Help:Referencing for beginners on how to add sources). If you do have a conflict of interest, then you can propose changes as described at WP:COIEDIT.

Please note, I'm not accusing you of any wrongdoing, just lack of knowledge of the way Wikipedia works. Nthep (talk) 17:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * OK, that all makes sense. . I agree it should be neutral. It was originally created by a community member. Would it be best to just delete it? I'd be fine with that.  17:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That can be done, or at least suggested - someone might disagree. Nthep (talk) 18:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC) PS please remember to log into your account to reply.