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Jack-A-Roe, thank you for responding.  That article says, ""Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation.""  That raises a question:  In writing the article, I paraphrased the Material (well, some of it).  It seems to me that paraphrasing is necessary when conveying information  I mean, Seth/Roberts published 20 books; and when they discussed a topic, it was discussed in depth.  So my question is:  Is paraphrasing considered to be ""interpretation""?  To me it is not interpretation, but others might say it is.

It would seem that Verbal thinks I am interpreting instead of paraphrasing.  But since he isn't a knowledgeable editor  meaning an editor with knowledge of the subject matter  I don't see how he can know that.  Verbal, acting on the assumption that I have been interpreting instead of paraphrasing, has been trying to block any new primary sources that I might add.

Now, the article also says that primary sources must be used ""with care"", but it doesn't say that they can't be used in abundance.  In a case like this, I don't see why the sections that describe the Material can't be abundantly sourced to the Seth books.

I really do have a handicap when it comes to finding secondary sources (what I've been calling ""third-party"" sources up to now).  I have always been interested in the Seth material, not metaphysics in general.  Thus, I have almost all the Seth books, but few other books on metaphysical subjects where references to Seth/Roberts might occur.  (I do have many Cayce and Casteneda books, but they don't say a thing about Seth.)  Finding more secondary sources is difficult for me because my town has a small library and (you'll be amazed by this) I don't have a car to drive to the nearest city.  However, it seems to me that, given the sale of 8 million books and the secondary references that are already in the article, notability has already been established.

Because I was the only person here who was able to keep reverting Verbal's cuts to the article, I am now being accused of edit-warring.  There's the possibility that I won't be around to prevent Verbal from chop-chop-chopping at the article.  That being the case, I hope you'll stick around.  "