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How can the "This article has multiple issues" bar be removed from the article?

{{helpme}} How can the "This article has multiple issues" bar be removed from the article?

This is an article about a unique people group with a verifiable history dating back at least 1,000 years:

-- the context is necessarily unique and different from most other articles on wikipedia
-- because of the nature of the article, there aren't likely to be (very many) other articles liking to it.

Tcloud1743 (talk) 12:35, 25 March 2011 (UTC) Tom Cloud[reply]

The issues need to be fixed before removing the tag. CTJF83 16:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the wikipedia admin 'CTJF83' that there are problems with this article, particularly its almost wholesale citation of primary original sources of research (36 of the citations refer to the Cloud Association website). It would be useful if comeone could provide a definition of the surname Cloud from an authoritative surname dictionary, which is strangely absent. However, IMHO it would also have helped if CTJF83 could have provided some friendly input as to how this article could be improved! Cloud is obviously an interesting surname and seems to have of the longest running surname groups. I can't imagine Tom Cloud was being anything other than sincere in developing this article Sionk (talk) 15:47, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing the 'clean-up', the Cloud DNA Project is definitely original research therefore innappropriate for Wikipedia. In addition there are duplicate External links at the bottom of the article to Mykindred.com. External link to Facebook is inappropriate for Wikipedia.

Not sure the 'conflict of interest' box is entirely necessary. There are more important issues with this article than that. Though Tom Cloud has a close connection to the subject there is no noticeable bias in the content. The big problem is lack of independent authoritative citations.

Some of the Cloud people are not really notable in an encyclopedic sense (war veterans, busniness men, sachool superintendants) and at least two of the Cloud locations do not seem to originate from the Cloud surname. But I'll leave that for another time! Sionk (talk) 19:40, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of places named for "Cloud"

All except two of the 'Places named for Cloud' have no evidence of a link to the surname. Many of them (judging by the references) have been collected simply from searches of geographical directories. Because of this, it would be prudent to keep the article on-topic (and concise) by deleting all except the two places that are named after a Cloud person. At the end of the day, this article is about the surname. If I get no compelling argument to the contrary I'll go ahead with this edit. Sionk (talk) 00:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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