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Happy editing! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Conflict of interest concern

I am concerned that the information about Barter card that you added to local currency may be contrary to our wp: conflict of interest policy. You have given just one source, which is not itself well known. If the material is to remain, you need to add a third-party wp:reliable source that discusses it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I reverted your edit because you just bunged it into the introductory paragraph. Put it under Australasia and use {{cite journal}} for the citation. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

thanks for fast review. As to your first comment: the report about Bartercard is from Leiden on-line library, accessible by employees and students. I have no time to find another source except for the Bartercard site. (Bartercard pretends to be bartering but it does not.) As to your second comment: I did not put in the intro but let suspended it to 3b. Not ideal, but I can not devote more time on reorganising, sorry. So, considering undeleting but I won't be hurt if you don't.

First, an apology: you did not bung it in the lead paragraph of the article, I have no idea how I misread that.

Per WP:Primary source policy, we try not to use the subject's own publicity and self-promotion: your comment in this case about 'pretends to be bartering' makes me doubly sure that we should not include them. So we got to the correct outcome even though I was ham-fisted in getting there. If at some time you should come across a third party source that mentions them, especially if it confirms your concerns, do please come back and say so.

I hope that this experience hasn't discouraged you from continuing to contribute to this and other articles. Welcome again. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:24, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

thanks for helpful reference, notice however that the source you deleted actually IS a secondary source, NOT bartercard, but may be this only adds to the confusion. Try worldcat.org to see where the report is. And no, I am not deterred.

I wasn't having a good day, was I? I'll get my coat. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)