Talk:Trinity Forum

Edits of this date

I did what I could today, to move this article toward being encyclopedic, including completing and correcting the few citations that appeared, creating standard subsections (instead of bold/ital-formatted copy paste headings that were here earlier), and adding standard bullets and columns to lists.

In doing so the larger issue was discovered, when I found first the lists then the text content, to be virtually identical to the content contained at this organisation's website. A look at the history presents one individual at least, who appears to be affiliated with the organisation.

As such, the copypaste tag was added—realizing that the content does not come from the home page URL, per se, but from the "About" and various other pages there, including from their lists of leadership.

A further issue, derivative of the plagiarism, but as important, is that the cut and paste simply transfers from that website all of the puffery and advertising language elements that are at the organisation's web page (including referring readers to the forum's bookstore—yes, here in the WP article).

In summary, this is not an objective WP article, but an extension of (derivative of) the promotional web pages of the organization, as far as one can quickly tell. I would blank it back to a stub, and make editors re-do it correctly, in accord with WP:NPOV and WP:VERIFY, if I were an admin or another with standing.

Please, someone take the bold action that is needed here, to create an encyclopedic stub, so all the (currently necessary) tags can be removed. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 20:48, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

 Done. I'm leaving the notability tag in place though, since I could find little information on the organisation via web search... Rusty Springs (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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