User talk:Paula Curtin

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Hello, Paula Curtin, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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 * To supplement the above, and with thanks for much good data added in April and today - we very much welcome all hands, and good text, and especially for those with access to a topic / subject, quality photography. But editing must be aligned with our standards. That does not, for example, reversion of experienced editor actions, inclusion of extraneous personal titles, 10+ post-nominals for an individual other than in their own article, or excessive listings within a topic article - the list of Hon. Degree holders is now longer than the section on the long and glorious history of RCSI.  Please discuss further on the Talk page of the article. The standard to think of is what you might expect to see if you opened World Book or Brittanica, but with a larger canvas, not the RCSI site. SeoR (talk) 11:21, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Paula Curtin (talk) 13:44, 11 June 2021 (UTC) Hello, and thank you for your message. As you have gathered, I am new to Wikipedia and am working hard to learn the ropes. I am grateful for your insight and guidance. I will edit the list of Hon. Degree holders and will also take a look at the post-nominals. Best wishes to you.


 * Thanks, you're welcome, and I fully appreciate that you are learning. I also appreciate that the RCSI team has a job to do, and our aim here would be to find ways in which your unique insight there can help enhance the article, while leaving certain matters to be addressed more by the website, while some topics perhaps not so critical for the present-day website might develop nicely in the Wikipedia article. The website has a nice heritage counterpart, for example, but does not appear to contain either the original or the present Charter.  Likewise your team would be ideally positioned to supply some images of areas not so publicly accessible, but that will involve some donation of shared rights. Anyway, sorry for only reverting now - like most Wikipedia editors, I have a lot going on in the rest of life, work, family and so on, so I have been on other tasks for the last fortnight. But I am planning to work on both this article and that of NCAD, as well as the National Museum. Sources are the key, and I see that there are 3-4 books I will need to consult, from Cameron for the deep history, Widness for more recent times, O'Brien with a short form, and something on the architectural aspects.  Now that libraries are reopened and restocked, these should be accessible.  I look forward to inputs, for example via the Talk page.
 * Two usage hints: when in these Talk page discussions, we suggest to progressively indent comments, each writer adding a further : to the start of their reply. And we conclude each comment with ~ which generates a "signature" of username or IP address and date + time. Not altogether intuitive but you get used to it - and much easier than codes in, say, SAP. SeoR (talk) 15:17, 24 June 2021 (UTC)