Talk:Royal College of Art

message: What is this "conservation" listed under "Profile": "Degrees are offered in [...] conservation"?  Art conservation perhaps, as this is an Art college, or conservation of architecture or design or antiques or something else? - Ben (talk) 06:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservation 

message: There is room for improving this article – especially the "lumpy" feel of the top – but this edit is not the way to achieve it.  I fail to see the point of dumping a long vertical list of MA courses in an article such as this (see 18:25, 13 November 2006 edit).  What is the context?  It is misleading, for example, to imply that there is an MA in Film & TV, that really being a degree at National Film and Television School which RCA ratifies.  And what of the research degrees such as MPhil and PhD?  Should there not be a long list of courses for these degrees too, in the interests of balance?  Other university articles in Wikipedia do not have long course listings.  Please do not add information simply for the sake of it. – Pádraig Coogan 09:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of degrees 

message: (I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: University ratings

message: I have deleted the name of Tom Barker from the list of notable alumni.  TB may, in his own opinion, be a notable alumni of the RCA, but he appears to have added his own name to the list, possibly for business promotional purposes, and it does not appear on the RCA alumni list published by the RCA which is at http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/study/alumni_2725.html
Londoner1961 06:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Barker's name was added by this edit: .  However, I'm unable determine what college Barker graduated. --Ronz 16:57, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Great - I've added some in the past, but eg David Gentleman surely has an article. Johnbod (talk) 13:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Alumni

message: This was a massive edit (his 2nd) that looks to me like the college brochure, replacing nearly all the text with a peacocky, link-free version, and the edit summary:"have replaced previous infomation with accurate, up to date information. I am from the RCA)".  To Royalcollart: You should gain more experience editing before making a change of this size. Please also be aware of WP:COI and some of WP:GLAM will be relevant.  Is your text original, or will I find it on the college website?  All contributions here must be released from copyright - see WP:COPYVIO. You added almost no links (and removed dozens), and your/the college's style is very WP:PEACOCKY. In general you should look to adding and integrating new material, rather than replacing the old, unless there are particular problems with it.  The list of alumni you used, for example, is very biased to recent years, which may be useful to the college in attracting students, but is not what we need here.  Johnbod (talk) 18:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is all off the website, mostly completely unchanged, and all "© 2009 Royal College of Art all rights reserved. Material published by Royal College of Art on these web pages is copyright Royal College of Art and may not be reproduced without permission."
Johnbod (talk) 00:38, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royalcollart 's edits  

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