User talk:Kilianocall

Beatrice Elvery
Hi Kilianocall, I reverted your edits to Beatrice Elvery, as to make internal links you use just a set of double square brackets like Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. You also only link the first instance of any one linked item. Hope this helps! Smirkybec (talk) 18:06, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome and hints
Hello. Killian O’Callaghan, Quality and Academic Support officer, of the Office of Academic Affairs, NCAD, we presume. Muchos gracias for the revival and enhancement of the article. Please do scan our Conflict of Interest policy, and other major ways of working. For now, two main suggestions: 1) cross-linking of articles is good but please just use name of article, not Wikipedia URLs 2) when making a major assertion, especially one which requires assessment or synthesis, or which concerns a person, even more if living, please include a citation from a news or academic source, online or offline. Welcome, and good luck,

And you are?

NCAD citations needed/COI issues
Hi there, I see you have added a huge amount of information to the National College of Art and Design article with no citations. I have no reverted it, but it is bad practice to add that much information with no verifiable citation for any of it. I have added a maintenance tag to it for the moment. If you are associated with NCAD you may want to read about Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest. I am the Project Coordinator of Wikimedia Community Ireland, so if you or anyone else in NCAD would like to discuss how you could better work with Wikipedia, do get in touch. Smirkybec (talk) 15:40, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Edits to Kilian O'Callaghan article
Hi, and thank you for constructive editing to the above article. Some of the information added, while valuable, goes beyond the cited sources, and it would be very helpful if you, or others, could quote a newspaper or magazine entry, academic journal article, or other source to support them. We take all article content seriously, but especially that relating to the biographies of living people, and while the items I refer to are uncontroversial, unsupported points might still need to be reviewed. Beyond that, I see you edited a few articles back in 2018, so as one of the editors focusing on Ireland, welcome back in 2019, and I hope you find other topics you'd also like to help the community grow. I see, for example, that you amended the number of Irish dancers to attend the Royal Ballet School, and perhaps we should have articles on more of those? Thanks,SeoR (talk) 22:09, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello also. I have also worked on this article, and as you appear to have access to more information than previously found, I join in the hope that you may have some additional citations.  I also wonder, if you have connections or interest, as your username may hint, if you might be able to source a picture, perhaps a performance moment, a profile picture, or both.  I have been offered photographs for articles before and have learnt that this is not so simple a matter so I advise up-front that any picture would more or less need to be donated to the project.  Thanks. Twilson r (talk) 11:30, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Hey there Twilson, I do indeed have a picture of performance, but wasn't able to upload it, it's restricted to copyrighted pictures, not sure. I do have more information on things like those five boys who were accepted into the Royal Ballet School, since becoming RBS. There were of course earlier Irish dancers, such as Anton (Pat) Dolin, not sure if he attended Vic Wells School or whatever was in place then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.1.217.20 (talk) 13:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello! I think that if you follow the steps outlined at WP:UPIMAGE, it should be OK.  Wikipedia has had to get very cautious about copyright, as the encyclopedia is free to all.  Every image has copyright, so if the image you mention is one you took, or one taken by a passing stranger and left with you, you can simply declare it to be public domain, or semi-free, as with CC-BY-SA, and it can be used.  I must clarify: the last time someone sent an image they asked to post, it turned out to have been taken by a journalist, and that's not OK, only the journalist could release that one.  It would be the same with a photograph taken by a professional photographer.  In such cases, unless very specifically arranged, no matter how many copies one has, the copyright remains with the taker.  I hope that helps.
 * I have never heard of Anton Dolin, and I must look him up. I like to take on a new topic from time to time, and write up an article, or a few articles, on that.  I most recently tackled artistic retreats such as Cill Rialaig, which has hosted choreographers as well as painters, writers and more.  I did start an article on the next RBS student, one Andrew Wilson, last year, and I looked at a new student of recent years, but it was too soon to make an article on him.  If you have the names of the two other male RBS students, I would be happy to look them over to see if they'd qualify.  I would like to do a few articles on the female side also, but part of what inspired me last year was that I discovered that almost no Irish male dancers were on Wikipedia, none at all in ballet.  Thank you.Twilson r (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello again! I am a bit of an occasional visitor but I had a go at photograph uploading today, and it went well.  Simply go to the Tools menu on the left, pick Upload File, and if you tick the "My own work" box, it is very straightforward.  I uploaded a few photos of Dublin's NCAD, as I saw that you had worked on that article, and it took just a few minutes, mostly writing up descriptive notes.  If the work is by someone else, then you do have to arrange to show or forward permission data.  I hope this helps.  I also trust that if my NCAD notes can be improved, you might do so. Twilson r (talk) 07:42, 12 November 2019 (UTC)