Talk:Genealogy

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[edit] Portuguese Genealogy Wikia

I seem to have upset the founder. After a mere two days working on the wiki (in March), the founder comes back in June and blocks me. I had replaced the "About" page (which was basically the same as two other pages) with the text used in the application for the wiki.

That wiki has so little content and so few contributors that it could well be merged into the predominantly English-language version. However, its stated purpose is to help a group of genealogists with interests primarily in one of the 26 states of Brazil, as an adjunct to their Yahoo! group. Seems to me like an extremely restrictive use of a Wikia with a distinctive and simple name that should be for all possible Portuguese-language genealogy worldwide. I will be interested to see whether it develops. If the founder tries to restrict its use, Wikia management should probably step in and remind the founder that Wikia owns it.

Robin Patterson 06:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I would approach it as a misunderstanding first by writing a message on the owner's root site talk page. Chadlupkes 13:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New "Genealogy Wiki" must be a mistake

I've said as much on its forum. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)