User talk:Damonsbane

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Hello, Damonsbane, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Progressive Academy, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Progressive Academy
Hello.

I hope you understand, but I generally do not respond to emails from editors I do not have an established relationship with. Since transparency is the goal anyway, I will respond here.

Thank you for being open about your conflict of interest. Regardless of whether or not you are paid specifically to edit Wikipedia, you do have a conflict of interest here, which it seems like we agree on. Wikipedia has an extraordinary quantity of policies, guidelines, and suggestions involving conflicts of interest. Best practices for editors with close associations summarizes them pretty well. All of these pages and pages of information are not out of bureaucracy, but because it's a serious problem (which you can read about at Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia if you'd like). It has specifically been a problem when Scientology is involved also, at least in the recent past. (Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia may be of interest if you want even more background reading.)

With that in mind, Wikipedia articles should always be based on reliable sources with a strong preference for third-party sources. This means that content has to be verifiable to some source outside of Wikipedia, and not simply something that you, personally, know to be true. Using first-hand information that is not supported by any other source is original research, which is not appropriate in Wikipedia articles. The information about Applied Scholastics is supported by a reliable source. Dead links can still be considered reliable sources, as can offline sources. I have added an archived link for this particular source, also.

If you know of sources which have been published that could be used to update the page, please propose them to Talk:Progressive Academy. You may find Edit requests helpful to attract additional editors. Again, first-hand information is not useful. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 23:34, 15 June 2018 (UTC)