Baudoin1

Hello, Claude, and welcome to Wikipedia. I read your request on the Genealogy Talk Page. I'm actually going to recommend the Wikibook:Genealogy project, which can be acccessed from the Genealogy page, or here. France has not yet been covered. ThuranX 01:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Oilgasstandards.jpg

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Managing a conflict of interest

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Response

Thank you for explaining all this. I am a member (by delegation, actually) of the Steering Committee of the organization that is the subject of the page I created.

I am not being paid for the work of that not-for-profit organization.

We found the page to be missing and I created it. If you examine the page, you should see that I took pains to adopt a NPOV. I don't use any words that indicate a favorable (or unfavorable) opinion of the organization. I just state factually what they do. I am going to read the guideline you pointed me to and see if I need to do anything additional to meet the rules. Claude (talk) 05:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)