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Sources on the company
Only the public record for ZHI Trading Limited at Companies House is independent of the subject. The rest is RSC's own pages, its FAQ post of 22 July 2019 and an interview published on its blog on 14 July 2019.
This matters for the wiki's citation rule, which bars commercial seed-bank descriptions and breeder catalogues as sources. That bar is about using a seller's catalogue as evidence for ethnobotanical, historical or scientific claims. Here the seller is the subject of the page, and its own statements are cited as evidence of what it says about itself, not as evidence that what it says is true. Every such statement in the article is attributed in the sentence that carries it ("RSC states", "Its FAQ names", "RSC argues"). No claim of RSC's is stated without attribution. If a later editor removes an attribution, the sentence fails this page's sourcing basis.
McPartland and Small's 2020 classification of high-THC cannabis (PhytoKeys 144: 81–112) does not mention RSC. Other third-party material on RSC is seed-shop directories, retailer listings and review aggregators, which the wiki does not accept. The Curious About Cannabis podcast episode of 28 May 2020 is third-party publication, but its content is Angus speaking, so it is cited as attributed statement and not as independent assessment. Éloise 14:10, 17 September 2026 (+07)
Editorial treatment
- Title. The Real Seed Company, with the definite article. This is the form the site uses in its own title tag and trading name. Real Seed Company is a reasonable search form and wants a redirect.
- Founding date. 2007 is the date the site puts on its trading, attributed; the company now holding the domain was incorporated in 2021. The two are not joined: no source says what, if anything, held the business between those dates.
- Founder. Angus, the form the sources use and the form the page keeps. Companies House publishes officer records for ZHI Trading Limited; no legal name appears here.
- "The original specialist site". RSC's own description of itself. Not carried into the article: it is an unattributable superlative about a market, and the wiki does not rank sellers.
- RSC's criticism of other sellers. Reported as RSC's position and confined to one paragraph, because it is a documented stance of the subject. Not adopted, and no competitor is named without attribution. RSC's recommendation of a named Afghan collector is left out: a seller endorsing another seller is not encyclopedic content, and repeating it reads as the wiki passing on a recommendation. Éloise 14:10, 17 September 2026 (+07)
Source discrepancies
RSC gives its registered office differently on two of its own pages, and neither matches the register.
- Terms & Conditions places ZHI Trading Ltd at an address in Bristol.
- Contact Us places ZHI Trading Ltd at an address in Reading, with the building name misspelt and a postcode that has no valid UK form.
- Companies House gives the current registered office as an accountancy firm in Theale, near Reading, Berkshire.
The article follows the register, which is the authoritative record, and names the town. The Bristol address is not reported in the article: it may be a former registered office or a stale page, and the sources do not say which. The wiki does not reproduce the registration or VAT numbers, street addresses or postcodes of a seller still trading. Éloise 14:10, 17 September 2026 (+07)
Kwik Seeds
RSC's Hemp & Multipurpose category calls kwikseeds.com "our other site", and the FAQ directs buyers wanting feminised seed there. The two shops carry overlapping listings, and Kwik's wording is frequently RSC's own older text rather than a competing account; this is recorded across the accession Talk pages. Éloise 14:10, 17 September 2026 (+07)