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Request for Clarification on Reverted Edits to Oxford Royale Academy Page

I dedicated a considerable amount of time to enhancing the quality of the Oxford Royale Academy page. Initially, I refined the English for clarity and coherence. Additionally, I incorporated Wikipedia hyperlinks to key information within the page to enrich it further. It's important to note that I neither added nor removed any content; my sole contribution was the inclusion of a logo. I'm perplexed as to why my modifications were entirely reverted without any justification. Could you please provide some insight into this decision? Naxh (talk) 10:28, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Naxh: The major concern was that you removed referencing without explanation i.e. your edits reduced the number of citations in the References section from 47 citations by 10 down to 37. However, on further review, you did make some enhancements so I have restored some of those. You can continue to edit and clean up, but please 1) be careful not to delete things unless necessary, 2) use the edit summary to explain any significant deletions or changes; 3) be careful of overlinking common terms. Hope this explains things. Dl2000 (talk) 00:20, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning, and thank you for your comment. I edit only during my free time, as I enjoy reading Wikipedia pages. The references I removed were eliminated due to redundancy or because they were no longer functional. I appreciate your contributions, great work! Naxh (talk) 12:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a scam?

I've seen some ads for this 'academy.' It seems fishy but I can't tell for sure.

Here's some evidence:

These web pages from reference 1 were almost 100% AI-generated, according to ZeroGPT, and the website looks very generic, as if made by an AI. https://blog.iefa.org/2025/02/26/top-scholarships-for-indian-students/ https://blog.iefa.org/2023/03/16/health-insurance-plan-international-student/
Many of the images on the ORA home page are generic photos of the cities that they are apparently in, or the Statue of Liberty.
Some of the reviews on reference 2 are AI-generated.
In ORA's 'New Technology Courses', they say that they've teamed up with TechSpark, "Switzerland’s leading Education Technology experts." On their website, right-clicking and highlighting text is disabled, as if they were trying to prevent people from fact-checking what they say. Also the title for that section is "Discover Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity", which doesn't make sense to me; 'discover' seems like an inappropriate word. Also, TechSpark's most recent blog post is from April 10, 2024, but ORA claims their partnership is "New for 2025".

I tried using Google Image Search to see if they got any of the photos from somewhere else but it seems to be broken; it doesn't find any matches no matter what image I put in (from ORA or elsewhere) (this isn't evidence but can someone else check?)
I checked the Google Maps location from the address (The Punt House, St Catherine’s College, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UNITED KINGDOM), and its profile picture is just the Radcliffe Camera in the University of Oxford.
Neither reference 1 nor reference 2 actually mention that ORA was established in 2004, but they are cited as sources for that.
ORA is briefly mentioned on the University of Oxford's official website, but their reviews for both room 14 and room 12 are the same.
Clicking on ORA's privacy policy links to another website called HubSpot.
Enrollment costs thousands of pounds, so successfully scamming people could be very lucrative.

In conclusion, this doesn't seem like a real business, it seems like they're just trying to take people's money while creating websites for fake organizations as well as profiles on existing websites to make them seem more real. I also think that this Wikipedia page may have been created by the people creating this scam.

I could be wrong; none of this is definitive and I found it all today (Mar 21, 2025). Can people look into it? Jazz Pack (talk) 18:36, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]