Talk:FreeBMD

Projects for other countries

Where Can I find a list of FreeBMD projects for other countries ? - unsigned by 2008-09-10T13:08:16 150.101.209.14

Do you have a particular country in mind? Have you tried google " country name +births" etc gioto (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Try here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Genealogy_Alliance DenCol (talk) 10:24, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 24 September 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: NOt moved  — Amakuru (talk) 13:31, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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FreeBMD → Free UK Genealogy – organisation changed its name in 2014 – Wikileigh32 (talk) 09:48, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:00, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

• Possible Oppose It appears as if FreeBMD is part of Free UK Genealogy, not a name change if that's true. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:00, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose, though evidently the introduction to FreeBMD will need to be amended if the scope of the organisation behind it has expanded and FreeBMD is no longer the organisation. I don't see any evidence at the moment of the parent organisation, Free UK Genealogy, being notable in its own right (anecdotally I've used FreeBMD and other genealogy resources for many years and never heard of Free UK Genealogy). Sionk (talk) 06:37, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
• Propose FreeBMD is just the name of the project; charity itself was FreeBMD, now Free UK Genealogy. Propose to change info to reflect this, and leave FreeBMD as name of entry?Wikileigh32 (talk) 12:53 30 September 2016 (UTC)
• Comment, From the site you link to: "Free UK Genealogy is ... an umbrella organisation for FreeBMD, FreeREG [on parish registers] and FreeCEN [on census records]". If we move this article to Free UK Genealogy, it should at least mention those other projects. GrindtXX (talk) 12:17, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. This is the wrong way round. If someone who knows the information takes half an hour to produce a couple of paras on Free UK Genealogy, and then another fifteen minutes to merge into it the salient pieces of text from the FreeBMD wiki page, then there is a arguable case for the one title replacing the other. But right now what we have is an entry on FreeBMD. You would only create confusion by changing the name without bothering to provide information on the rather different entity - what it does and what its structure is.

The article is about FreeBMD, so re-write it about it's umbrella organisation would be wrong unless that organisation was notable i.e. recorded and described in reliable independent sources. It certainly shouldn't be rewritten based on Free UK genealogy or FreeBMD webpages. Sionk (talk) 18:24, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

• Comment Agreed. I rather meant somehow revise to include that FreeBMD is now a project within the organisation, and merely reference Free UK Genealogy is now the name of the organisation. That way the article remains about FreeBMD - notable where Free UK Genealogy is not - and the name is not changed, but the information is updated. User:Wikileigh32(talk) 10:57, 01 October 2016 (UTC)

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