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Major cleanup and sourcing needed

Article appears to be a press release or promotional text from the subject institution, and is un-encyclopedic in both tone and content. It has no third party sources at all, and one single reference, from a press release of the institution. Language is clearly promotional. It should be checked for copyvio as well.

I’ve tagged it for cleanup Cleanup-PR and ThirdParty tags, so that editors can start to organize a needed, neutral POV, rewrite on what appears to be a notable institution. T L Miles (talk) 04:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve made major cleanups and removed PR tag. The other issues remain and require more work from non coi editors, please.T L Miles (talk) 05:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Major COI issues

The vast majority of this article was produced in a short period in 2016 by accounts which only contributed to this article. Three IP addresses geolocate to the Croft Institute, one user in fact named their account “thecroftinstitute” and was blocked for a promotional username. The majority of the article was written in a few edits by the article creator whose only contributions have been this article. Even given assumption of good faith, this appears a coordinated promotional article from the subject institution.

Ideally, neutral editors should start over and build a well sourced neutral article.T L Miles (talk) 04:58, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The only independent source I could find is from the University newspaper, dated 2018, so may be out of date. [1]

It too seems somewhat promotional in tone and content. Independent sources may be difficult to find in part because there is a quite famous bar in Melbourne, Australia also named ‘The Croft Institute’ which may also be notable. Most Google results are for this entity. T L Miles (talk) 05:19, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]