Madison1500

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Hi Houlihansmith, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Ukexpat Good luck, and have fun. --ukexpat (talk) 17:44, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Changing Username

Thanks for the message. You will find the process described at Wikipedia:Changing username. – ukexpat (talk) 18:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Houlihan Smith & Company

Just spotted something else. The intro para has been lifted from the company website. That is a breach of copyright and not permitted on Wikipedia. Please rewrite the intro (and any other parts of the article lifted from the website) so that they are not in breach, otherwise the article is at risk of speedy deletion. It may be easier to work on the article in a user subpage as I mentioned over at the Help Desk. Let me know if you need help setting that up. – ukexpat (talk) 20:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the message on my talk page. When you think you have fixed the issues the best thing to do is tell the person who added them, in this case me, so the article can be reviewed and the tags removed if the issues are dealt with, or you can delete them yourself and explain in the edit summary and on the article's talk page how you have dealt with them. I am guessing from your user name that you are in the PR/advertising business. If Houlihan is a client of yours you have a major WP:COI and your edits will come under heavy scrutiny. If I have got the wrong end of the stick, my apologies. – ukexpat (talk) 17:36, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I have removed the COI tag, will look at the others as soon as I can. – ukexpat (talk) 15:07, 17 July 2008 (UTC)