User talk:Trocaire

Hello, Trocaire! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Your edit to Trócaire

I have reverted your edits, as they disrupted the page. As I expect you know more about the subject, may I ask you to read our manual of style, and edit the page accordingly. Just as a precaution, you may want to review our conflict of interest guideline. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask me. Happy editing! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dirk, still trying to get to grips with how to use Wikipedia! I have edited the entry again. Could you possibly give me some pointers if there is still a style problem?

Thanks for the link to the Conflict of Interest section. I am indeed an employee of Trocaire but the changes i have made stick to adding a few basic facts about our organisation. And what was there previously was very insubstantial.

Alan Whelan Trocaire Web Editor.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trocaire (talk • contribs).

Hi, I saw your edits (well, the bot saw it). I was linking to the manual of style above, I would suggest you read it, and maybe look at some other (similar) pages. E.g. you now linked the first word in the text to the homepage of your organisation, which is not commonly done. That link only needs to appear once on the page, either in a specialised 'infobox', or in the external links sections. The links on the page are not meant to tunnel people to a website outside the wikipedia, the information should be self-standing, though referenced. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]