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Metamodels are increasingly being used in software engineering, particularly in standards from both the OMG and ISO. It is therefore critical that these metamodels be used “correctly”. In this paper, we investigate some of the pitfalls observed in the use of metamodelling ideas in software engineering and, from these observations, deduce some rules of thumb to help increase the quality of usage of metamodels in software engineering in the future.