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A fact from Karlin Lillington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record, The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Karlin Lillington.

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Further work

Expansion of the Irish Times and other journalism sections with details of key articles, and reactions to, and debates around, them

I began this myself, but a few more seminal articles would be good to isolate.

A second picture

The second image (in external links) may be available.

A little more on undergraduate education (prior to TCD MPhil and PhD)

Not yet progressed.

What happened to the Oxford University Press book announced as a co-editing project (more than 20 years ago, it seems) but not listed in BL, LoC or Worldcat?

>It was a feminist review of all-Ireland literature, was announced, with a co-author, but I never saw it on a bookshop shelf. Lillington’s name would sell, whether in literature or on tech and privacy.

Thanks - will pursue. I now see this point touched on below, but have not yet managed to substantiate or secure more data beyond the fact that such a forward listing once existed. SeoR (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

>The lady did write an introduction to a fine book, praised by Pat Cox, Mary McAleese and more: see https://www.nenaghguardian.ie/2021/02/22/critics-praise-fr-seans-new-book/ 83.220.238.37 (talk) 07:08, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, will briefly mention. Now actioning.

Year of birth - 1959 / 1960 appear here or there but quality source required

>Well, if UCal Santa Barbara in 1980, ok. David in ‘76 must have been a pre-course thing, or her family lived there before she signed up for actual studies. 83.220.238.37 (talk) 07:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You mean UC Davis? Yes, a point, needs checking - some association with UC Davis exists, details unclear. External references mention 60-62, so 1959 is most likely, but can only be added if cited. SeoR (talk) 10:52, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Attending lecture(s) at UC Davis may have been an extern activity, as a local resident with an academic parent, so while adding a source, removing from education flow on article (https://twitter.com/klillington/status/1190597159789436930). SeoR (talk) 08:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any other awards or recognition

After a Twitter feed was added to another article I created, where it was that journalist's most active channel to the world, I am considering adding the subject's Twitter feed - it is official, and does seem to be the subject's routine outlet (several times a day), cross-linking with the Irish Times and elsewhere - https://twitter.com/klillington?lang=en - will think on this over the next week. SeoR (talk) 21:06, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All help welcome. SeoR (talk) 21:06, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 10:26, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney? Source: Technology writing and The Irish Times (and its status in Ireland): (a) Prof. Terence Brown, The Irish Times, 150 Years of Influence - esp. Chap. 12 / PhD, Seamus Heaney: (b) Lillington, Karlin (The Irish Times ,12 September 2013). "Crossing new borders in pursuit of Seamus Heaney" and (c) The Library of Trinity College Dublin: PhD Thesis - "Gender and metaphor in the poetry of Seamus Heaney" / by Karlin J. Lillington"
- ALT1:... that Karlin Lillington, technology writer of The Irish Times, also holds a a Masters and PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, who she hosted in San Francisco in the early 1990s? Source: Technology writing and The Irish Times: (a) Prof. Terence Brown, The Irish Times, 150 Years of Influence - esp. Chap. 12 / Seamus Heaney, Masters, PhD: (b) Lillington, Karlin (The Irish Times ,12 September 2013). "Crossing new borders in pursuit of Seamus Heaney", (c) The Library of Trinity College Dublin: MPhil dissertation - " 'Borrow the longship's swimming tongue': Scandinavian imagery in Wintering Out and North" by Karlin J. Lillington, (d) The Library of Trinity College Dublin: PhD Thesis - "Gender and metaphor in the poetry of Seamus Heaney" / by Karlin J. Lillington"
- ALT2:... that Karlin Lillington, technology writer of The Irish Times, founded a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel rescue charity in Ireland? Source: Technology writing and The Irish Times: (a) Prof. Terence Brown, The Irish Times, 150 Years of Influence - esp. Chap. 12 / Seamus Heaney, Masters, PhD: (b) Aftering podcasts: "Irish Cavalier Rescue". soundcloud.com, 2017

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Edward Hewitt Nichols

Moved to mainspace by SeoR (talk). Self-nominated at 12:12, 12 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and any of the hooks could be used, the article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:18, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Scheduled for a half day presence on 29 April. 1123 reads for the day incl. the 12-hour feature, so 95 reads per hour, or so. SeoR (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New Music Festival

Ms Lillington was promoting the latest New Music event (all online), and I noticed that she's a director of the charity company that runs it - worth mentioning? It fits with the Founder Patron status for the national opera company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.220.239.214 (talk) 13:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dublin New Music? I will look into it. Thanks, since done. SeoR (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Book (unpublished?)

A joint work with Prof. John Goodby of Swansea, when Lillington was post-doc and getting started in techno-journalism:

Oxford and London: Goodby, John and Lillington, Karlin (eds) (listed as due second half 1998, Oxford University Press) "A vanishing border: feminist remappings of modern Anglo-Irish literature"

Goodby himself is an expert on Dylan Thomas, but has also written on Heaney and others, and published some poetry of his own. No idea what happened to the book. OUP is prestige, and they would not have put it in the catalogue unless it was well past first draft. 2A00:1370:8117:C0E9:E83F:C243:6C5E:8BF7 (talk) 21:40, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks, and I also found this listing, but before mentioning it would be good to know more, and especially about what happened. SeoR (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

B-class review

Has a defined structure, including a lead section, and one or more sections of body content - yes
Is free from major grammatical and spelling errors - yes
Reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious inaccuracies or omissions - yes
Is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations - yes
Contains, as and when appropriate, supporting materials, such as an infobox, images / figures / tables - image, infobox - sufficient at this scale

(but respecting USEPROSE - yes). PASS. SeoR (talk) 21:38, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Noteworthy?

This appears to be the story of someone who came to Ireland to pursue a postgraduate course at university, became a journalist and has an interest in dogs. I see nothing here that would support a case for a Wiki entry. 86.160.1.127 (talk) 12:22, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So you missed the bits about being one of the leading technology journalists in Ireland, including mention in a scholarly history of the Irish Times, and the data protection advocacy which contributed to EU-wide change? 217.75.5.23 (talk) 15:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UCD

Why no mention of University College Dublin? That's where she first landed (not Trinity) and studied for her M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature before (inexplicably) transferring to Trinity and doing the same thing all over again. 86.160.1.127 (talk) 17:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting point, not seen in any of the sources I read when starting the article way back when - two Dublin unis. In Wikipedia we can only use verifiable data, especially strictly concerning people, so is there any source to which you could point to cover this? Thanks, SeoR (talk) 20:29, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]