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Cymensora

Hi, @Alarichall . Thanks for your offer on W. A. R. Richardson, "The Owers" article. However, I already have a copy of the journal itself. Richardson is cited in the Cymenshore article. Check out citation reference numbers [17], [31], [39] and [52] (there maybe more!) and the reference section. When I started editing this article I found a lot of the sources quoted Hume Wallace on any literature to do with the Marine Archaeology of the area. He seems to be the only one who has done a full underwater survey of the waters around Selsey Unfortunately his findings were self published and copies of it were pretty limited. I do not believe it has been put online? However I managed to find a copy in the local library, hence why he is cited. The literature on Cymensora is very sparse possibly because it is associated with the foundation myth of Sussex? Under the External Links section there is a paper by William Pullen that asserts that Cymensora was probably named before/ during the Roman era after Commius (king of the Atrebates in Britain 51BC – 35BC). It doesn't appear to be peer reviewed but is an interesting hypothesis. Regards. Wilfridselsey (talk) 10:27, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Doh! Sorry about that! I think I did a quick search of the article for 'Journal of the English Place-Name Society', whereas the article has the title as 'English Place-Name Society Journal' (which is fair enough because the title page of the journal is, if I remember right, confusing in this regard). So I thought that the article wasn't cited when of course it was. Apologies for wasting your time! Alarichall (talk) 10:39, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

That's OK thanks for your interest. The Richardson article was fairly easy to get hold of, as were pretty much all of the references appart from, as I said, the Hume Wallace. It was difficult as his book is typewritten (probably using a typewriter not a wordprocessor even!!) so there are no soft copies of it that I know of unfortunately. Wilfridselsey (talk) 10:56, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Elf

Hi Alric!

It's just great that you take pity on Wikipedia and the work of us geeks who populate it. Your edits as an anonymous user were all excellent; I especially appreciate those you made on elf! I certainly hope you will continue to improve the quality of this site! Regards --Salleman [talk] 4 July 2005 14:01 (UTC)

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Culture

Hi. If you have some time can you help out here? The article was a total train wreck and I made major revisions. The previous version had some material from Raymond Williams in it, but all jumbled up with anthropology and cultural studies was not named as a distinct approach or set of approaches. I deleted redundancies and fringe views and reorganized the rest so that distinct approaches were clear. That said, I am pretty weak on cultural studies. So I made a place in the article for it, but what I wrote could be off and is surely incomplete (my strength is in anthropology). I'd appreciate it if you could look at it soon and flesh out the differences between how anthropology and cultural studies understand and look at culture, clarify anything I muddled, and correct any mistakes. I do not think this article should replace the articles on cultural anthropology or on cultural studies, but I do think these disciplines provide important contexts for explaining different approaches to culture. Completely missing is a section on "cultural history," which I hope you know something about. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 00:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - I have done everything I could on anthropology's approach to "culture" and the article is out of balance, the thing to do is to add a strong section on cultural studies' approach to culture. I sure hope you can help. I hope this is a good holiday for you, Slrubenstein | Talk 23:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Nazi, Swastika References Being Purged from Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Would you mind having a look at the problem of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party's Nazi history and swastika flag being systematically deleted/vandalized? This removes an important aspect of neutrality from the article. References from many reliable sources are provided. See its talk page. The edits are being done by users with IP addresses from very similar domains. Thanks, Histopher Critchens (talk) 20:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Canterbury Tales

Nice work on the language section. I've been working on that article awhile and got stuck on the themes section. Those are always pretty difficult to write. Wrad (talk) 18:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Aha

Nú veit ég hvers vegna nafnið þitt var svona kunnuglegt þegar ég sá það í gestabókinni niðri á Þjóðdeild. Haukur (talk) 16:18, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson

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Ways to improve Mary 'Ajami

Hi, I'm Carriearchdale. Alarichall, thanks for creating Mary 'Ajami!

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Merge

Hello Alaric. As you've probably seen, I've restored the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election, 2010 article. We have individual articles for almost every national election and referendum held in countries, and I see no reason why this one should be any different. Of course, there are elements that should be covered in both articles and they should be strongly interlinked, but the election article should remain a standalone one. Cheers, Number 57 10:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Huda Sha'arawi

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Thanks, Staglit (talk) 21:37, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Elf

Hi, Alaric. I am glad to see you take an interest in the Elf article. I enjoy your serious contributions.

With regard the unfortunate situation, Bloodofox is a cyber bully with a history of harassment and abusive editing. Even here is massive deletions rather than line-by-line considerations evidences his nonacademic agenda and aggression. He works persistently to delete and censor scholarly information that he dislikes. I had a bad experience earlier when he succeeded in renaming an other article without consensus and in a way that destroyed its history and information. I was unfamiliar with the administration of wikipedia, and the admins didnt seem to understand how the old article was destroyed. Heh, meanwhile I was in a panic. Please, help undo any future POV damage by Bloodofox.

Anyway, I look forward to working with you and others to try make the information about the Elf solid and nuanced. It is an important and fascinating topic. Haldrik (talk) 01:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Haldrik. I don't know the work of either you or bloodofox at all well and will be happy to judge matters without prejudice. As I say, including edit summaries will help! Looking forward likewise to collaborating in future. Alarichall (talk) 11:44, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Cool, I appreciate it. Haldrik (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Great blog post

Hi - I just wanted to say that this was a great blog post! KConWiki (talk) 01:27, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks KConWiki! Alarichall (talk) 11:37, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Blog post

Hi Alan, may I say how much I enjoyed your blog post? Vandalism is massively detrimental to Wikipedia, more so when it goes un-noticed. You may be interested to hear (if you don't know already) that your blog post was mentioned in the Signpost, so double congratulations! All the best, Matty.007 13:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Wow, thanks Mat! I didn't know about the Signpost thing--I appreciate the heads up. And thanks also for the barnstar! I am honoured :-) Alarichall (talk) 14:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hans

Hi. I read your excellent blog post after seeing it in the Signpost, and had a go at editing Hans Jonatan to make the refs easier to understand. A few pictures in that article would definitely improve it, and it would be interesting to know whether this one is old enough to be in the public domain. There might also exist a picture of the ruins of the house he lived in. James^x12345 14:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey, thanks James^x12345! For the compliment but also for the work on that entry. Good idea about the pictures. It'll be a few weeks before I can follow it up, but I'll email the people behind the website you linked to and also Gísli, who's writing Hans's biography and has some relevant photos, to see if I can get any.

Sounds great. I've also created him a page on is.wiki (one line from Google translate, my sincere apologies for the bad wording) and linked them on Wikidata. James^x12345 15:35, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Icelandic municipal elections, 2014

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Eric Julius Biörner

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Ways to improve Jean Boinebroke of Douai

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Interesting. Appears to be notable, mentioned in an academic work on the period. Would suggest expansion if more sources can be brought to bear. Cheers Irondome (talk) 18:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Walter de Cantilupo

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Editing of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks

As you may not know, the article Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks was recently put up for deletion. It passed easily. See the results at [[1]].

But the proposer of the deletion had a valid point in that citations were rather lacking. I have attempted to improve the article by adding some.

However the one point I am stuck on is the matter of a supposed relationship between Heiðrek and Ermamaric. I don't know the source for this theory. Perhaps you do, and might edit the article appropriately. This theory was questioned by an anonymous user on the article talk page at Talk:Hervarar_saga_ok_Heiðreks and no response was made. I rather agree with the user but do not wish to make changes based only on that.

Jallan (talk) 19:43, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Konungasaga listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Riddles (Arabic)

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Riddles (Arabic) for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[{{{article}}}]].

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Arndís Þórarinsdóttir

I don't agree, I'm afraid. I think Category:Icelandic writers ought to be depreciated - I think the category is too broad. I tried to put her in the requisite sub-categories - Category:Icelandic children's writers, for instance - and if I missed any, I'm sorry. But by and large I think all of the writers-by-nationality categories should be treated more and more like container categories; I think it's much better to categorize people by the types of writer that they are. It's more properly specific, I think. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:02, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

In that case, perhaps you'd be so good as to do this for all the people categorised as Icelandic writers? At the moment, the outcome is sexist (with all but one male Icelandic writer being included as 'Icelandic writers' whereas women tend to be marginalised as 'Icelandic women writers'). That said, I note that Icelandic women writers contains a hatnote saying 'This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Icelandic writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.' So at the moment, your policy runs contrary to that hatnote. Alarichall (talk) 07:43, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but in what way? It says "or in diffusing subcategories of the parent" - Category:Icelandic children's writers is a diffusing subcategory of the parent, no? I will do what I can to clean up the parent cat - it's far from the only writers-by-nationality category which requires it - but it's going to take some time. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! Just to make sure we understand each other: I don't object to categorising Arndís in Category:Icelandic children's writers. But I do object to categorising her in Category:Icelandic women writers but not in the parent Category:Icelandic writers given that (a) male writers are not presently being treated in this way and (b) the hatnote for Category:Icelandic women writers makes it clear that people might belong both to the child category Category:Icelandic women writers and to the parent category Category:Icelandic writers. Hopefully your offer to 'clean up' Category:Icelandic writers does reflect an understanding of the sexism that the parent category currently exhibits! I'd be happy to sort it out myself, but don't want to do a load of edits if you're going to come and change them all!

Well...to the point that "male writers aren't being treated that way". They will do. I'm getting around to it - it's a slow task (made slower by the fact that my computer has been giving me troubles this weekend.) But I intend on parity with both - I'm not singling out women writers in any way. It's just that we have the categories in place for women writers which we don't, as much, for male writers, so it's easier to start there and work my way away from it.

As for the point that people might belong to both categories...well, yes, technically they might. But I think having people in a generic "writers" category, when they're already in subcategories, tends to make things needlessly confusing. There are times when it's appropriate, yes, but I think the category tree for Icelandic writers is diverse enough that breaking it down is easier. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:59, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I'll see if I can get it done myself :-) Good luck getting the computer to behave! Alarichall (talk) 17:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Notifying of Proposed Deletion of Studentergarden.. or something similar..

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Adding journal and book sources easily

Hi, are you aware of this simple method of citing sources? You only need to enter either the ISBN or doi and click a button for the rest of the fields to be populated automatically. I see that you've been around on WP for a long time and probably have your own preferences and workflow … This is just an FYI in case you are unaware of this tool. Have fun :)--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 13:45, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Cpt.a.haddock! I didn't know. I've always been a bit backward with referencing so it's a useful tip. Alarichall (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Looks good. I've replaced the duplicated reference with the same one twice (using refname) and added more citations, using Google books links where possible. Also added some Wikiproject tags on the talk page. Hope that's all OK.

Thanks Blythwood! Alarichall (talk) 21:50, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Duplicate refs

Just been reading through all your great articles and tagging them as reviewed...but there's no need to type in every reference five times! Just use the cite tool (which lets you paste in an ISBN and build the ref, too), type a name for the reference into refname, hit preview, and then you can choose the reference from 'named references' and insert the same one in anywhere. Blythwood (talk) 06:25, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not entirely convinced about this method. I see that the changes you made to Sigurðar saga fóts have removed the precise page numbers from some of the references, leaving readers to hunt around the article trying to find where particular issues are discussed. I should probably get round to seeing what other options Wikipedia has for referencing, but I'm quite comfortable just putting in full and precise references each time, in the knowledge that if that if one section of the page gets rewritten, the references elsewhere won't be affected :-) Alarichall (talk) 12:38, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for doing all this reviewing though! Alarichall (talk) 12:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

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Your article Mörg eru ljónsins eyru

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I don't understand. The article is written in English, not in Icelandic, so I can't translate it into English. I see that the note added to the page also says 'This article is written in Iceland. If it is intended for readers from the Iceland language community, it should be contributed to the Wikipedia in that language. See the list of Wikipedias.' But the article meets the usual criteria for notability for books, and I don't see why English-speakers should be deprived of an opportunity to read about it. Alarichall (talk) 14:27, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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See WP:WTAF. If you plan on writing the article, do it first, then link to it.

RE - all the links you're adding to Sovereignty goddess, in multiple articles are redlinks. Best to leave the text as is until the article exists. See the link above for how to proceed with this. Thanks. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:18, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Ta! I'll remember this in future. Alarichall (talk) 21:33, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled granted

Hi Alarichall, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Alex Shih^Talk 07:11, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Just a little note WP:FILEUPLOADWIZARD very helpful for adding covers to book articles. It is okay to use jpgs from the web, no need to take a photo of the book. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:38, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! That's helpful :-) Alarichall (talk) 11:20, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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About elves and what not

Hello Alaric Hall, I am considering to do a GA assessment on the article Elf, but i'd like to check one thing first. I noticed you have only recently been editing the article, mostly adding your own work. Are you familiar and have you checked the accuracy of the other citations? The reason why I ask is that a GA assessment can be quite an ordeal if the nominator is not familiar with all the sources cited.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 15:02, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I am starting the review. I hope you are ready.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 22:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Sorry I didn't see this in time. There will have been some references that I inherited from earlier versions of the entry and didn't check, but most of them I did indeed check. I hope it doesn't prove a waste of your time and thanks for your hard work on Wikipedia either way! Alarichall (talk) 08:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Alarichall, it is okay, i've started here.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 09:20, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elf

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Elf you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Farang Rak Tham -- Farang Rak Tham (talk) 22:40, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Alarichall, if you haven't got any time to look at the assessment, let me know now, so I can just fail the nomination and we can get it over with.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Sorry, I didn't realise you expected me to be responding as you went along: I thought I should wait until you'd finished. I appreciate all the very helpful feedback. I'll be happy to work on the article over the next fortnight or so, if that's okay? Alarichall (talk) 13:25, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elf

The article Elf you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Elf for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Farang Rak Tham -- Farang Rak Tham (talk) 19:00, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elf

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Hello again

Hello Alarichall, do you have any time to do a GA assessment yourself? I have an article about a half-historical, half-mythical person called Maudgalyayana that I have submitted for GA. Might be of interest to you. (If you feel I have been too hard on you in the last assessment, you can take revenge now, lol.)--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 17:13, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Are we still on speaking terms, Alarichall?--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 14:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey ho! Thanks for this prompt, and for the invitation. I'll see what I can do but I don't have much time this week. I reply to messages from you much faster than from most people at any rate! Alarichall (talk) 15:40, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! If you are too busy it is okay—we can leave it for some other time.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 06:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi there @Farang Rak Tham:! It has been a very long time, but I'm on holiday for the next couple of weeks so I thought I'd ask if there's anything you'd like doing on here? I never got to repay you for your help with the elf article! Alarichall (talk) 18:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Actually I pinged you briefly a few months ago, remember? Some discussion on the WikiProject Religion. But you are right, we didn't talk for a while. I remember the elf article as quite a rewarding GA, because it reminded and revived my Tolkien passion a bit. I only have two articles about Thai people, not sure if you'd care to review: it's Luang Por Dhammajayo and 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations, but the latter contains mostly Thai language sources.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll leave a comment on your talk page accordingly. Alarichall (talk) 16:44, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Le Roman du Comte d'Artois

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Alarichall, thanks for creating Le Roman du Comte d'Artois!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This appears to have no sources. Is the 'external link' actually your source rather than a friendly suggestion? If so, can you change the title from 'external links' to 'References' or 'Sources' so this is clear? If it isn't your source, can you pelase add your source.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Boleyn (talk) 08:03, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Can you please answer the above? Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 20:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry. Actually, my source was a conference paper I was listening to. Obviously you're right that the page needs to cite written sources. TBH I've been hoping that someone who knows more about it will work on it eventually. But obviously at some point I might have a chance to look this stuff up properly myself. Alarichall (talk) 21:32, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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I am not sure that he would pass GNG. Has he only written one academic book? If there are multiple reviews, and reviews of his novel (which I've read), it may be OK. But I can't find a single review of Pre-Romantic Poetry on JSTOR. What do you think? Please reply here on your talkpage and ping me. Thank you. Zigzig20s (talk) 07:18, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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Jaufre and Talat / Talac de Rougemont

Hello Alarichall Sorry for inappropriate addition to your quote. Thanks for moving (and not deleting) note re. Talat de Rougemont. Intrigued by this character and wonder whether he derives from some (lost?) character from Welsh Mythology, given association with both Yder and Gilfaethwy fab Don / Girflet filz Do. regards Flobbadob.

Shaftesbury Act

Hi Alaric

A disambiguation page would be useful: bolded alternative titles should be access points whether by redirect, hatnote or dab page. I'd have done it myself but I'm on my phone and partner is busy on the laptop! Thanks. PamD 13:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC) PamD 13:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Good point. I'll sort it. Alarichall (talk) 13:48, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Union Atlantic

Hi! Union Atlantic was listed at WP:CP because of the very long quotation, which I've just removed as quite out of proportion to the length of the page. Now I find that you were never notified. I'm truly sorry about that (and yes, I should have checked that before I did anything else), but don't feel that it is appropriate to restore the quote. In general, quotations should make up – at most – only a small percentage of article text, and should only be added where they are the subject of discussion in the article. This, of course, is more breached than it is observed. Question: are you sure that this book is notable by our standards? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:17, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'm not sure there were any copyright problems here (depends what you call 'excessive') -- although I recognise it's bad style to have long quotations in Wikipedia entries. But anyway, I've paraphrased it now. I also added links to reviews -- again, I recognise that if I'd done a better job on this article in the first place, you'd have been spared asking; on the other hand, in the time it took you to ask about the book, you could have established its notability! I guess you'd see this article as an example of Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself; personally I'd see it as a case of Wikipedia:If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But no harm done. Good luck with future editing! Alarichall (talk) 00:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Solidarity

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	Thanks for all your hard work on this! All the best, Stinglehammer (talk) 01:58, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Updating the 2018 UK higher education strike article

Hi, hopefully you've seen this already but the strike article is now featured on the In the News section of Wikipedia's front page in the Ongoing section. I'm told for it to remain there it needs to be regularly updated everyday. I'll do my best but better if both of us or others can contribute to keep it spruced up and uptodate each day if possible. Thanks again for all your hard work on this. Cheers! Stinglehammer (talk) 23:07, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Noted, @Stinglehammer:. No worries! Alarichall (talk) 11:13, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

PS if you find yourself wanting to work on the article yourself and short of inspiration, it would be good to integrate references to the House of Commons report, as a good, well balanced, authoritative source, into the background sections. The report is linked in the external links. Obviously I'll try and work on this myself, but thought I'd mention it. Alarichall (talk) 23:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Alarichall: Possibly you've already seen this but the article has now been removed from the In the News section. A good run while it lasted but a tad alarming some ITN voices did not see this as ever being newsworthy. Anyway, I've updated with the new strike dates announcement for 16-20 April and wish I could have found time to do more. Thanks again for your editing efforts on this over the last few weeks. I daresay there will be more to report on this story and more updates to add in due course. Thanks again! Stinglehammer (talk) 20:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

June 2018

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Töfrahöllin. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Caution for plugging own book/report on multiple articles. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 10:01, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi there @Thomas.W:! I take your point that Wikipedia editors referencing their own academic publications is sensitive. Re your deletion of the mention of útrásarvíkingar in Vikings, would you be happy if I reinstate the prose with different references? (I cited my piece because the pages cited refer quite comprehensively to past work, but I can just as well cite that work directly.) Re your editing of Töfrahöllin, we now have an awkward situation where the identifications of sources that I made are still in the article, but now with no reference. What would you prefer here? To remove the information entirely, or to reinstate the reference? I don't think we can have it both ways! Alarichall (talk) 11:33, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

In Vikings it would be OK to reinstate the material with different sources, and in Töfrahöllin it would be best to remove it all, if there are no "neutral" sources available. Wikipedia has very strict rules regarding COI editing, including that editors should never add their own material (even people who are widely acknowledged as experts in their fields have been indefinitely blocked from editing here, and had their websites/publications blacklisted, for doing it...). I haven't looked at the rest of your edits, but the same rules would of course apply there... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 11:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

We can do that then. But, for future reference, I think you might have misread the COI guidance on citing yourself. It says 'Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive. Citations should be in the third person and should not place undue emphasis on your work. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion: propose the edit on the article's talk page and allow others to review it' (Wikipedia:SELFCITE). This is very different from your idea that 'editors should never add their own material'! Alarichall (talk) 12:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

What I wrote is what most other editors seem to feel, and the edits by you that I reverted were sourced only to your own material, which definitely is "excessive", especially since your comment further up in this thread says that other sources also exist, at least for your edit on Vikings. Doing it on multiple articles also qualifies as citation spamming, which is a blockable offence here. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, sort of. As it says at WP:REFSPAM, 'citation spamming is a subtle form of spam and should not be confused with legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia.' That is to say, legitimate, good-faith self-citations that verify content and help build the encyclopaedia are not citation spamming. Alarichall (talk) 13:03, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:REFSPAM also says "Citation spamming is a form of search engine optimization or promotion that typically involves the repeated insertion of a particular citation or reference in multiple articles by a single contributor. Often these are added not to verify article content but rather to populate numerous articles with a particular citation", which seems to be a good description of the edits in question, especially since you admitted you could have used other references. And your wikilawyering over it isn't helping your case... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 14:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Ah well, I guess we'll just have to agree to differ over what constitutes spam. I'd just finish this discussion for my part by encouraging you to go carefully undoing accurate, relevant, good-faith edits in future! I've been editing Wikipedia for years and won't be going anywhere, but it's the sort of thing that could put off new users contributing relevant expertise. Alarichall (talk) 15:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Alarichall. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:54, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Thomas.W, kind of odd to post such a heavy tag without any explanation. In this default form, it doesn't inform of anything, and only leaves questions to people not involved. What is the conflict of interest?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:04, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Having looked at the section above, i think I can understand a little more. Out of curiosity, may I ask on which policy you base your understanding that no scholar may refer to his own publications while editing on Wikipedia?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:11, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@Farang Rak Tham: The general conflict of interest rules can be found at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, and the shortcut to using own sources (which is a subsection of the COI rules) is WP:SELFCITE. Using own publications as sources is allowed "within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive". What is excessive or not is generally interpreted very restrictively, though, and the posts that led to the section above this were way over the line. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:32, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

So where did Alarichall go wrong? I don't see any violation of SELFCITE with these edits, which is the only wiki article I see you referring to. I do think your revert here is problematic, as no spamming took place. Please add more explanation plus links, as I am getting a bit suspicious here.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:42, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no intention of entering into a detailed discussion with you, since you AFAIK aren't directly involved. You asked general questions, and I answered the general questions, but that's as far as I will go. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:54, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I suspect that Alarichall has added his books or articles to too many wiki articles. However, you should provide more than one example, so other editors can follow, especially when you are accusing someone of a thing like a COI, which can lead to serious measures quite easily. It also seems a far stretch to go from a violation of selfcite to a full-fledged COI, especially when it concerns a scholar in a field with nearly no real-life consequences, and no political or economical interests. To put it bluntly, someone having an certain scholarly opinion about dwarves or elves is not a COI—at worst, it is UNDUE and should be tagged as such. Similarly, an article from a university is not spamming.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:57, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Also, I find your usage of terms like wikilawyering questionable, as well the conflicting tagging which you did in the edit linked above.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 22:57, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thomas.W, I was looking at this talk page for another reason, then saw your tags. I don't have any direct involvement in the why and what of these tags, but since these tags are public and may affect the tagged editor's reputation, you should provide sufficient reason—even when editors not involved ask. Not providing sufficient reason for a tag like COI can easily be understood as form of tendentious or uncivil editing.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 23:04, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

I removed the COI tag per WP:UNRESPONSIVE and WP:CIVIL, as the person tagging has been unwilling to explain his tag. I suspect the advertising/promotion tag is unwarranted as well.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 12:30, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Farang Rak Tham: You seem to have misunderstood how quite a few things work here: it's not up to you to decide if a COI-tag and a warning for promotion/spamming posted by another user is warranted or not, you have no right to remove a tag that has been posted by someone else on another user's talk page (the user, i.e. in this case Alarichall, is free to remove it, but you're not), and I have no obligation to give a detailed explanation for it to you, other than pointing you to relevant rules, as I did. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:08, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Farang Rak Tham. I've been a bit confused about what to make of these accusations, so it's good of you to make your own enquiries and offer a view. Alarichall (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Thomas.W: I have no objection to the removal of this tag, so no harm done there. I actually wasn't sure if I was allowed to remove it myself. Alarichall (talk) 17:11, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

User's are allowed to remove anything from their own talk pages, except declined unblock requests while still blocked. Removing content is simply seen as a confirmation of having read whatever messages/warnings they have received. Removing content from a page doesn't delete it, though, everything can still be found in the page history, easily accessible for anyone. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:19, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

That makes sense. Since I wouldn't want anyone to imagine I have something to hide, I'll leave them here. Alarichall (talk) 18:43, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts

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		For extensive contributions to the articles on and relating to the Celtic language decline in England. Awarded by Cdjp1 on 19 July 2018.

Wow, thanks @Cdjp1:! I appreciate it. Alarichall (talk) 16:51, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

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Alarichall is an self-described academic working on north-west European medieval history, literature and language, and on modern Icelandic culture. He has been a serious contributor since 2005 and increased his activity in 2013 to vastly improve the quality of articles pertaining to his genre. He does sterling work having created over 350 new pages. Not only does he use the edit summary, he advocates for its use by other editors. 93% of his 9000 edits are in mainspace which speaks to a lack of drama. Elf, Riddle. 2018 UK higher education strike and Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain are examples of his contributions.

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An academic focused on north-west European medieval history, literature and language, and on modern Icelandic culture. A serious contributor since 2005 improving the quality of articles pertaining to his genre. He has created over 350 new pages.

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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 15:14, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

WOW! I must admit I didn't even know this was a thing. I should evidently learn how to nominate some other people. Thanks, Buster7! I'm really chuffed. Alarichall (talk) 16:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

It's "a thing" alright and you deserve it. Nominating someone in your circle of editing would be much appreciated. This is the nomination page. ―Buster7 ☎ 02:57, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Buster7! I'll do some nominating asap. I can certainly think of some deserving recipients. Alarichall (talk) 18:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Harold Fairhair

Please see a recent dispute that was reported at WP:AN3 about the Harold Fairhair article. The IP was keen on removing the skeptical material that you had previously added to the article. Though I have no idea who is correct, I was hoping to see something on the talk page about the issue. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:53, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, EdJohnston. I can put something on the talk page. Alarichall (talk) 06:58, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

I humbly thank you for your barnstar, I didnt expect any thing like that. I will try to leave edit summaries in the future.

However, some editors have objected to some of my edits on the page, mostly about the use of images. I also have had an unanswered peer review on the article. Some editors have already made some changes so its not the same that it looked a few days ago. Could you come to the talk page and give your reflection on these issues? Sunriseshore (talk) 06:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

As the talk page to Post Classical History has become increasingly confused, I have decided to reply to you here. I appreciated the link you sent me. I think this information could be used in many places in the Post Classical Article, such as the End of Period section as well. I am excited to see that historians are taking a more theoretical approach52 in handling the way we structure history. I in particular remember the 'One God World' they mentioned.

Also, though I noticed what they said about the Black Death contradicts one of my maps. The source claims that there has not been evidence found of the Black Death occuring in the Delhi Sultante or the Yuan Dynasty in the 1347- 52 time frame. Do you have any thoughts on this issue in particular? I remember before looking for plauge information and seeing claims of it moving east but no primary sources.

Sunriseshore (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Folklore Invitation

Hello, Alaric! I recently started Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore to address the numerous, systemic issues that Wikipedia faces regarding the topic of folklore, including genres such as myth. I'd like to invite you to participate! :bloodofox: (talk) 23:17, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Amazing Polar Article

I recent found this, it reminded me of what you had said on the Post Classical Talk page, about circumpolar peoples. I really want to include information about the polar migrations in the article. You are welcome to provide insight in how it should be done and what sources can be provided. Sunriseshore (talk) 11:04, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

@Sunriseshore: Thanks! Yes, this was just the kind of thing I was thinking of. I haven't forgotten about the Post-Classical page: I've just been busy with the day job lately. I look forward to working on this, including making use of this article :-) At the moment the circumpolar region is implicitly covered in the Americas and Eurasia sections. Might I suggest that we try to lift the circumpolar region out as a separate section, on a par with 'History by region in the Old-World', 'Eurasia', 'Oceania', etc.? This would primarily involve moving 'Norse Contact and the Polar Regions' into a new 'Circumpolar region' section, and developing it. In terms of secondary reading, I was going to start with the article here and this one: doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199271016.013.0026. (The latter might be available via sci-hub or libgen?) Alarichall (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

A quick search through listed links did not help me find the named article. I will continue to research however. I think the proposed section makes sense. The new section may cove specifically the number of migrations that took place to Polar North America at this time.Sunriseshore (talk) 22:59, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

@Sunriseshore: here you go! https://libgen.pw/item/detail/id/1362117?id=1362117

Oh! I just saw this!Sunriseshore (talk) 18:19, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Poll Regarding Move from North Germanic peoples to Scandinavians

Hello, Alaric. I thought you might be interested in Talk:North_Germanic_peoples#Requested_move_1_September_2018, which will likely have numerous consequences regarding our coverage of the ancient Germanic peoples. :bloodofox: (talk) 22:09, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

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GA review for satyr

Hello! Farang Rak Tham told me that you study mythology and I know you wrote most of the article "Elf," so I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing the article "Satyr," which I have recently nominated for GA status. I took this article on as a project a few weeks ago because, all the way back when I was in fourth grade, there was a boy in my class who thought (apparently in all seriousness) that I was secretly a satyr disguised as a person. That was how I was first introduced to Greek mythology and, from there, ancient cultures in general. As I grew older, I learned that the original horse-like Greek satyrs were far more obscene than the relatively tame goat-legged ones my elementary school friends and I knew from reading children's fantasy literature. Nonetheless, I still find satyrs interesting because they fall in the uncanny "twilight zone" between the human and the divine, much like the elves you yourself have written about. (In fact, classicist M. L. West has argued that satyrs and elves share a common Indo-European heritage, a possibility which is discussed in the first section of the article.) If you have any articles currently up for GA review, I would be willing to review one of those in exchange. --Katolophyromai (talk) 16:18, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Not a student, but a scholar... --Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 17:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey guys! Thanks for thinking of me. I'd certainly be interested in doing this... I'll see if I can take it on this weekend. I'll let you know if I can't. If I can't do it then then I probably won't be able to for a month or so, but would still be happy to do it after that if still necessary. Alarichall (talk) 19:43, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your willingness to help! I really appreciate it. I would be happy if you could do it this weekend, although, ironically this weekend is probably going to be the one weekend this month when I will be the most busy. I will probably still have time for the review, though, so I have no problems there; I just may be slower to respond than I normally would be. If you cannot do it this weekend, then I will see if I can find someone else to do it, but I have no idea if that search will be successful, since it is usually rather difficult to find editors willing to do GA reviews. --Katolophyromai (talk) 19:54, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Katolophyromai: I've done a GA review at Talk:Satyr/GA1. Alarichall (talk) 09:28, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Nice work!--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 17:48, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

I am currently working on writing replies to all your comments, as I have been nearly all afternoon. --Katolophyromai (talk) 19:10, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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Riddle 44 or 45?

Can I check: we have Exeter Book Riddle 44 but the lookup to Megan Cavell takes us to "Commentary for Riddle 45". (And you might want to add something to our article saying "is dough not penis"?) --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:16, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I should have spotted that. It turns out that the problem is that the number is wrong at Anglo-Saxon_riddles#List_of_Exeter_Book_Riddles (which is probably also my fault). Unravelling what's gone wrong there will take a while and I can't fix it right now, but I have at least moved the Riddle 44 page to Riddle 45! I'll try and make time to fix the list of riddles soon. I appreciate you giving me the heads up! Alarichall (talk) 23:33, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Excellent. Have fun untangling it all :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Why?

Hello, I can understand why you reverted my edits on poems and on Phonological history of Old English, first I wanted ask about that, but yes, it also has the References page. So bad.

But what's wrong with my edits on Swithun? I just changed the orthography a bit, it's a minor point, it's how the name would actually look in Old English. And then sƿiþ, what harm would it be to stay written with Ƿynn? That's only a word, it doesn't deal with any reference! It was such a minor change, 'cause I'm perfectly aware I'm not allowed to do any more, but no, it should be reverted too. Please, may it stay? At least in two words it would be how it's supposed to be. Birdofadozentides (talk) 04:59, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi there, Birdofadozentides! The thing is that no professional editor of Old English transcribes wynn with ƿ: everyone uses w. It doesn't make sense for Wikipedia to use idiosyncratic spelling that no-one else is using: it's confusing for readers and inconsistent with scholarly consensus. Thanks Alarichall (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for answering so late, I don't know why your answer didn't appear in my notifications before. "idiosyncratic spelling that no-one else is using"? It's the original spelling of Old English! There was no such letter as w in Old English, and the fact that the whole world suddenly desided to use it instead of Ƿynn, the actual Old English letter, doesn't make it right. "confusing for readers"? at least the readers will know the truth, they'll read more about it, perhaps it could be the first time they would hear about Ƿynn.

"inconsistent with scholarly consensus?" Why scholarly consensus means more than original manuscrits, why modern editions mean more than manuscrits? Wikipedia could make a change and not support that traditon, but what am talking about, of course, no.

It's only two words. Why cannot just two word stay with Ƿynn? What if we write two options, one with that "beloved" letter and the other one with Ƿynn? Using it: " / " I'm kind of disgusted by this variant, but if it's the only way the words could stay with Ƿynn, I'd have to agree. And there will be no "confusing for readers" then. Please. Birdofadozentides (talk) 10:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Request for a review on Wikipedia:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Hi Alarichall, based on the page statistics, I believe you are very familiar with the book. When you have some time, would you be kind enough to review the synopsis I wrote recently? Thank you and much appreciated! Santa at nasa (talk) 22:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Leiden Glossary

Very nice--thanks! Drmies (talk) 01:12, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Norse sagas

You're doing a superb work with Norse sagas. Well done.--Gilwellian (talk) 11:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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You said it so much better!

About "Word" - is it still in use? I actually do have a good excuse for lacking clarity that day. Regardless, I just wanted to drop by and say thank you for presenting a proper argument, and that I'm pleased to meet your acquaintance. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 21:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Alolam

Hi, if you don't know how to close an AfD discussion, then please do not do any NACs. Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 16:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, Randykitty. That's fine, but I don't understand what I did wrong. I just followed the instructions at Wikipedia:Closing discussions. Since you then closed the discussion yourself, it seems clear that the decision itself wasn't controversial. So I'd appreciate any guidance on where I went wrong. Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 17:23, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 22:26, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

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VCH

Well I never...! I thought it was all over in 1920 or thereabouts. Thank you. But I'm afraid that Ecorbynomics still fails the wp:TRIVIA test as far as inclusion in The Economist article is concerned. If it is in VCH then that would suggest that it could reasonably be included in Corby. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

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@Aviartm: glad to be of service! And thanks for the barnstar: I appreciate it :-) Alarichall (talk) 07:54, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

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Germanic paganism

Hello, Alaric. Germanic paganism could use more eyes. We've got a user over there adding (and re-adding) material such as "the earth goddess known as Vanir and the god of war, Aesir" without any notable intervention beyond my own efforts. I'll go ahead and prepare a grounded rewrite of the article to better stave off this sort of thing in the future, but in the mean time the article certainly needs more attention. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:10, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll put it on my watchlist and try to keep up! Alarichall (talk) 20:43, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

In need of advice

There is an ongoing dispute in the Post Classical History article, some users have said the section I wrote on Polyoneisan-South American contact was promoting fringe theories. However, the purpose of the section was to simply show, that there is an argument, on the issue. Also my sources include Cambridge University, and the American Society for Archaeology. If you think I am in the wrong here, please let me know -Sunriseshore

Nativity of Jesus

The source given is extremely poor. Note the usage of the word "assume" on stated page, for instance. Pre-70 AD date very common in doing a google search. I did not supply a reference, since the second line backed up the first. Nonetheless, here's one: https://carm.org/when-were-gospels-written-and-by-whom I'm sure there are many better references out there, though this that one covers the basics well. Jim Percy (talk) 19:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi there Jim Percy! Sorry for replying slowly: you caught me at a busy time. Thanks for the message! The source you're suggesting is a website rather than, say, a university textbook or peer-reviewed scholarly article. I had a look at information about CARM, the organisation that hosts the page, on its homepage, and it says 'CARM is a 501(c)3, non-profit, Christian ministry dedicated to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the promotion and defense of the Christian Gospel, doctrine, and theology'. So this is probably not the most objective organisation to be sourcing information from. I'm not saying that the stuff on that page about the dating of the Gospels can't be improved -- just that good quality, scholarly sources are needed, particularly on a topic like this, where different people's religious views might make editing contentious. Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 06:24, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

@Alarichall: Yes, I understand that a book source is vastly superior to one online, and that the person behind the online source is critical. I suppose, maybe, it's just far too controversial of a topic to be wrapped up in one sentence, since there is so much difference of opinion as to the exact dates. I'm going to research more next time, before making a change. I noticed that the stated reference book (in the article), has a question mark in the title. The author is presenting a rare view that the "virgin birth" was spiritual not historical. Nonetheless, seemingly quite a scholar in theology. PS. Yes, I would never have given a website like that as a source, for exactly the reason you stated. Jim Percy (talk) 14:58, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Leeds Museums & Galleries

Hi Alaric, Please would you be able to help? I've completed a draft page for Leeds Museums & Galleries, which is here Draft:Leeds_Museums_&_Galleries (I think?) - I can't work out to how to request a move to the re-direct page that I *think* you've had something to do with? I tried a technical move request, but was that code came up as invalid? All advice gratefully received (Lajmmoore (talk) 14:39, 26 September 2019 (UTC))

We can't move the draft page to Leeds Museums & Galleries because that title has previously been in use for articles (which were deleted). But the new article you've drafted seems uncontroversial -- clearly notable and well referenced -- so I've requested a move at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. Nice work! Alarichall (talk) 21:46, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks v much! Will check out the technical requests for the future! (Lajmmoore (talk) 17:44, 29 September 2019 (UTC))

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Thanks for always being to helpful! Lajmmoore (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

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Frideswide

Hi, I pinged you on Talk:Frithuswith#Requested_move_9_October_2019 (proposed renaming to Frideswide). You edited a related article recently and your page suggests you have studied Old English and may know how F is referred to in recent academic texts. TSventon (talk) 18:04, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Phoenix_(folklore)#Requested_move_31_October_2019

Given your work on articles such as elf, you may find the discussion at Talk:Phoenix_(folklore)#Requested_move_31_October_2019 interesting. :bloodofox: (talk) 04:27, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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And same for Carla Denyer. Bondegezou (talk) 19:56, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, Bondegezou. I'll pick this up on the relevant talk pages. :-) Alarichall (talk) 20:55, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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Sugar edit

On my talk page, you said: You reverted an edit I made to Sugar with the comment 'no significant improvements', but I made two or three significant improvements:

• At the moment the article implies that the word sugar was borrowed directly from Persian to French, whereas it was actually borrowed via Arabic, as I indicated in my edit.
• I added a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, which is a more reliable source than the website previously cited.
• I copy-edited the text for clarity.

I wonder, then, if you'd see your way to reinstating the edit? Thanks!

The differences between the existing content and your edit here were intermediate steps covered in the EOD source. I felt your edit added unnecessary intermediate details uncritical to the actual etymology leading to the English, sugar; we also don't mention uses from Greek, Spanish, Italian, etc., WP:NOTEVERYTHING. --Zefr (talk) 17:59, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

So I get that you might think that English Wikipedia should only deal with the etymologies of English words. (Rather limiting in my view, but there we go.) But at the moment the article implies that the word travelled directly from Persian to French, which is misleading. If you want to cut out intermediate steps in Wikipedia's account of the transmission of the word, you might as well edit the article to say that the word sugar comes from Sanskrit. But it wouldn't be very informative. So if we could put the Arabic stage of transmission and the improved reference in, that would be good. Alarichall (talk) 21:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Careful

This edit removed text, probably inadvertently, and left a paragraph in the lead incoherent. Fences&Windows 12:17, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Fences! Alarichall (talk) 12:20, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Request for review

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Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Vomli (talk) 07:32, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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...to my note on that talk page: I've looked at some of the things you wrote. I don't know what your status is ("lecturer" in the US is a shitty position, but for you guys it's different, I believe), but I've started including the articles I wrote on my annual reports, including DYKs with page views--my chair, and the dean, approve and we are about to include "this kind of writing" in the tenure requirements as an option. I've written up a memo that includes a discussion of the peer-reviewing process for DYK, GA, and FA, and they're taking it seriously. Oh, sorry, gotta run--take care, Drmies (talk) 22:52, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Anglo-Saxon settlement (linguistics)

Hi Alarichall, this is CelticBrain. I don't know whether you've had a chance to look at the changes I've made on Celtic language decline in England but I was hoping to take some of those edits up to the linguistics section of the broader Anglo-Saxon settlement page. I've mocked up a version of what I intend to do in my user sandbox (which I can link if you want). I do understand, though, if you have a lot of work going on and are unable to attend to this at the moment--I just wanted to make sure we were in agreement before I went ahead with any editing.

Broadly, though, most of my would-be edits involve the incorporation of more recent work that argues, as many scholars seem to be doing nowadays, that the level of Anglo-Saxon migration, and by extension the ways by which Old English spread, varied from place to place. Also, for the "debate" and "place names" sections I've tried to limit the references to language scholars.

Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks a lot! CelticBrain (talk) 05:43, 12 August 2020 (UTC)CelticBrain

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Hi Alaric! I'm putting together an article on Germanic heroic legend (currently a redirect to Alliterative verse) at my Sandbox. Feel free to contribute or comment! User:Ermenrich/sandbox.--Ermenrich (talk) 18:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I hope I can find time to help :-) Alarichall (talk) 23:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Alaric,

I have posted a couple of questions in Talk section of Celtic language decline in England. Regards -- Ulrich von Lichtenstein (talk) 09:52, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

I fully understand that you are quite busy, but I would highly appreciate a couple of really short answers: a) yes/no; b) e.g. there is no need to reassess Jackson's findings; c) the currently estimated scale of Anglo-Saxon migration: XX--YY thousands. (Recommended reading). Regards, -- Ulrich von Lichtenstein (talk) 14:19, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

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Postclassical History

Hello, this is sunriseshore. The Postclassical guy, you might recall we had some great discussions foour years ago. I am back on Wikipedia perhaps just for a short time. I have made some additions to the article, including some new audio files. Oh, and I should thank you for the sources you have hadded and the 'approaches section. Actually I am still finding this to be invaluable:

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Revealing identity

Hello Alaric,

I'm considering linking my profile to my real life name and job in academia. As someone who has already done that, I'm just curious about your experience. Have you faced any harassment because of it?

Thanks!--Ermenrich (talk) 14:27, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Hey ho Ermenrich! Sorry for taking a while to reply. I don't usually edit in very contentious areas of Wikipedia, but no, I've never had anyone harass me using my real-life identity for work I do on Wikimedia projects. Very occasionally I get a positive real-life communication or query about it, which has only ever been useful :-) Alarichall (talk) 15:28, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Alaric. I've been thinking I might want to step back from editing eastern European and 20th century topics for that reason. I have some exposure to pan-Turkists too. Hard to figure out. But I'm glad your experience has been positive!--Ermenrich (talk) 18:35, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

@Ermenrich:-just as a word of caution, I've had some super negative experiences with this. Editing a few new religious movement articles in particular resulted in adherents sending me death threats and once the son of a scholar I added to an article about attempted to track me down. Instead, he seems to have harassed some poor soul at his workplace in New England unrelated to me—and all for adding WP:RS-compliant material he preferred was not on his father's Wikipedia page (specifically this material). The Wikimedia Foundation was not remotely helpful. From my experience, you may be opening yourself up to a lot of harassment, some of it from unexpected quarters. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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I can understand your reversion. I did indeed fumble-finger "8th or 9th century"; my new bifocals are not as good for typing and proofreading as my old readers, witness my recent track record of having to go back for minor edits. No original research, though; everything is at the Old English rune poem page I wikilinked, including the pic file of the verses. What jumped out at me was the same time range for the documents using the dotted ẏ. To the extent I was "original" at all, it was picking out the example of bẏþ as the word to look at, since (a) it was short, and (b) it heads most of the (non-runic text) first lines of stanzas. I could as easily have gone on with examples (ᵹehƿẏlcum, pẏꞃþꞅcẏpe, hꞃẏꞅteꝺ,...), but this article wasn't about that. I leave it to you to decide. – _•Raven  ^.talk 12:15, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the message and sorry for not replying more promptly. Yes, I think you've misunderstood what's going on here. In Old English scripts it's normal for the letter 'y' to have a dot over it—this doesn't just happen in the Rune Poem, and is just part of how scribes wrote that letter. The "annotation symbol resembling a rune-like dotted ‘Y’" described as appearing in the Harley Prayerbook isn't the same thing at all—it's just that the description given here makes it sound like this symbol looks like a dotted 'y'. Alarichall (talk) 07:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

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Aww, thanks @Mike Christie! I am down a bit of an early-Wessex rabbit-hole at the moment and am happy to have the encouragement! Alarichall (talk) 18:03, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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Input request @ Talk:Jinn

• Jinn (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch
• Users are discussing DUE/UNDUE relevance and fringe-ness inputs requested also at Talk:Jinn#Comparative mythology.

also Pre-RfC stage info:
Also A user has proposed updates for consideration at this sand box for the article Jinn. As a discussion facilitator fyi a WP:DUE discussion (some aspects may touch WP:Fringe) is at Talk:Jinn#Pre-RfC stage's WP:RSN#Hachette Livre and WP:ORN step. After RSN and WP:ORN step, RfC formatting is likely to be discussed at Talk:Jinn#Pre-RfC in a new sub section.

This intimation / input request is made to you, looking at your previous contribution to the article Myth (Mythology) or talk page there of. Bookku (talk) 04:24, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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Category:British place-names containing Brittonic */kɛːt/ has been nominated for deletion

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Wikiproject

Hi, I see you're a member of WP:Folklore, would you be interested in joining a wikiproject on oral tradition (which folklore is a subset of)? Kowal2701 (talk) 18:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 1866 Finnish typhus epidemic

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Mothin Ali

I do not understand why you continue to revert my posts on Mothin Ali. I am using language he himself uses, backed up with sources and links. As an indigenous brit, I do not understand why you are subjugating my identity. Please stop with the racism. MaxFm2002 (talk) 08:46, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

It would be more helpful to discuss this on the talk page for the article you are editing, where I have opened a discussion at Talk:Mothin_Ali#Editor who wants to "support the right of Indigenous peoples to fight back". Alarichall (talk) 08:51, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Categories

Please note that you're not allowed to file pages in redlinked categories that don't exist, per WP:REDNOT. Wikipedia does not have any categories for "[British County] with etymologically Brittonic names", and per our rule against WP:SHAREDNAME categorization it isn't going to have such categories — any attempt to create them will get taken to WP:CFD for deletion, because we do not categorize topics by characteristics of their names — so since I've had to remove numerous pages from nonexistent "Britonnic names" categories in the past few weeks, you need to stop trying to add pages to categories that don't exist. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Bearcat. Thanks for this post, especially as I was unaware that you were chasing after me, undoing my work as I went along. Insofaras I've used any redlinked categories, it's been by accident. The category http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Category:English_places_with_etymologically_Brittonic_names does exist (because I created it, back in the summer) and I add county-level categories to it -- but evidently I've forgotten to add missing counties to it on some occasions.

However, I was unaware of WP:SHAREDNAME. I can see how this policy can apply -- but I also think there's a counter-argument, in that the etymology of a place's name constitutes historical information about the place itself. Maybe most Wikipedians will not consider this of general enough interest to merit a category, but I'd prefer to see what people's opinions are through a proper nomination for deletion, if you'd like to make that nomination? Alarichall (talk) 09:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Adding new articles to wikiprojects

Hi Alaric, when you create new articles, would you mind adding them to wikiprojects? You don't have to rate them yourself if you find it gauche to rate your own. It's no big deal, but it makes it easier for others to find them later for maintenance purposes.

Also just an fyi, since I think this probably was decided after you got autopatrolled: IMDB is typically not accepted as a reliable source in articles these days, since it's user-generated. WP:RATER and User:Headbomb/unreliable.js are handy for these things. Cheers. -- asilvering (talk) 21:35, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion @Asilvering! I've never got my head around wikiprojects, so evidently this is the time to! Alarichall (talk) 18:02, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

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