User talk:GSI.Secretary

Hi. Your article on the Genealogy and Heraldry Bill 2006 has fallen foul of Wikipedia's copyright rules. II'm assuming ffrom your user name that you are Michael Merrigan, secretary of the GSI: you will either have to arrange for the copyright to be released into the public domain, or rewrite the article. I'd been meaning to start such an article myself for a while.

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You might want to read the [Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style|Manual of Style] as regards the way links are organised: I tidied up the new ones you put on Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland.

It's probably best to avoid ampersands and commas in article names too.

I see you also created an article for your own society at Genealogical Society. there are two problems with this: firstly it ought to be Genealogical Society of Ireland as there are plenty more Genealogical Societies out there. The second problem is you are writing about yourself (or rather the Society you work for or represent), which can be considered as creating a "vanity page" []. The article looks OK, but its neutrality could be challenged: the rule of thumb is that if a person or organisation is notable enough someone else will write an article about it.

I hope this seems constructive, it's meant to be: the subjects you made contributions on deserve to feature in Wikipedia. Lozleader 08:15, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh dear, you seem to have been adding links to your Society to various articles and hhave created one for Ireland's Genealogical Gazette. While they were doubtless made in good faith, they can be considered spam, and run the risk of being removed. See: Spam

Lozleader 08:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC)