User talk:Dr Brancaleone

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Hill of Tara
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I included the warning about conflicts of interest because your username is the same as the name of somebody in the Hill of Tara article which you edited. -- Patleahy 00:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Dear Pat Leahy, many thanks for your editing. It has sharpened up the update considerably. Re conflict of interest, I think we should be careful about myths (ever since Roland Barthes 1957 book). The conflict of interest lies with the government, the property developers, and the archaelogists working on behalf of the National Roads Authority, not with me. I have simply stated my identity and witnessing of the site and documentation of it with photography. I am, in this context, an impartial (Italian) observer who was shown around the site in late May. As a European, I treasure the cultural heritage of Ireland as much as my own country's. As a cosmopolitan, I also treasure that of Irak, severly depleted by looting during the US-UK invasion. The article as it stands sets out a chronicle of what is going on, tracing the on-going debate (so thank you and anyone else contributing and improving it). I am the former Deputy Director of lootedart.com, a research-based website and unit under the auspices of the University of Oxford, so my angle is heritage vs business interests. In a larger context, there is a conflict of interest, but it is not mine, it is between ethics and business, heritage and private gain vs the common good. This is my second Wikipedia involvement and I end by saying that I like the way it really does constitute on-line collaborative writing. Well done to you and others involved!

Hill of Tara followup
Do you have a source for this quotation and the conclusion which follows:
 * While one can agree that "the knowledge gained from excavations in advance of road and pipeline construction over the past 15 years has fundamentally altered our views of past landscape and societal change", in this case the arguments in favour of preservation rest also on heritage and the fact that the site should be preserved as it is part of a larger area.

I believe it is useful in the article but only if it can be attributed to a reliable source and not considered original research.

Also see Talk:Hill of Tara as to why I removed the reference to Joe Fenwick's letter from the article. I think the sentience says the opposite to what you thought it said and therefore the opposite to what Fenwick said. -- Patleahy 16:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I found the source of the quote. It was Eileen Reilly's letter in the The Irish Times on 21 June, 2007 -- Patleahy 19:03, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Pat Leahy, in the para below, someone has entered citation needed. This does not make logical sense. The ongoing media debate has been unfolding for quite some time; if, as I state, "this possibility is not being taken up" there cannot be a citation for it!

"Protesters have pointed out that the route could be modified so as to respect Irish heritage, yet this possibility is not being taken up in the ongoing media debate[citation needed], despite the fact that in early June 2007 the site was declared an endangered monument by the World Monuments Fund (WMF).[15]" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr Brancaleone (talk • contribs)


 * I added the citation needed and I intended it to apply to the whole sentence up until that point. Thank you for taking the time to discuss this with me. I hope you appreciate I am only trying to create an article every can accept as fact.


 * We do not put information into the encyclopedia without a verifiable reliable source. It does not matter if you know this information to be true; in an issue where there are different opinions there needs to be secondary sources so that everyone can accept the information presented. Please see the guidelines on reliable sources and verifiability.


 * -- Patleahy 03:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Its been a while and there is still no source so I'm removing the sentences. -- Patleahy 15:50, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

NB. Pat Leahy, are you the Pat Leahy who went to UCC and was an undergraduate in the late 1970s? If so, my wife Aine Healy knew you then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.184.14 (talk • contribs)
 * No, that not me. You don't meet Leahys many places except Cork and Kerry. -- Patleahy 10:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)