Talk:Golowan Festival

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2024 review
Since the Golowan page last received any substantial edits, an abundance of new material on the celebration of Midsummer in Penzance has been made available by Golowan CIC, the organisation that run the modern festival. In 2021 they commissioned anexhibition about the historical roots of the modern festival which produced 20 panels containing 4000 words of material, much of which are verbatim quotes with references from historic newspapers, books and documents. Much of this information could be used to correct and enhance the page to raise its standard and quality.

An article about the historic roots of Golowan was published on TradFolk in 2023, expanding upon Golowan's article.

Since I produced both the exhibition, its research, and wrote the TradFolk article, I have started to review this page and use the new information to improve the Golowan page in an encyclopoedic manner. Others may wish to use these links to do the same.

It is vital to keep pages about folk customs as accurate and neutral as possible as some people use Wikipedia as inspiration for reviving customs. Electric Antiquarian (talk) 13:29, 28 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Electric Antiquarian! Thanks for your work and your interest in improving the article - it is much needed! Just to let you know that content on Wikipedia must be verifiable - that is, it has to come from a reliable source. Some of your edits seem to be based on your knowledge or on the synthesis of information from sources (such as Spooner's views being incorrect), but need a reliable source (otherwise they are original research, which isn't allowed on Wikipedia).
 * Also, well done for collecting new sources that can be used; they look very promising. To make it easier for readers and editors to see where information has come from, it might be worth placing more citations and using an template after the reference code to show the page numbers the information is from. It's used so that , for example, denotes information found on page 1 of a source. Some examples of this in use can be found at Palais de Danse, St Ives. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help! Gazamp (talk) 14:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for a helpful reply. The page number template is a useful suggestion, and I'll work some of those in. I'm not sure what to do about Spooner's incorrect citation in her article. Her 1958 article which mentioned a 'skull on a pole' hobby horse in the Lands End area cited Richard Edmonds as her source, but when you check Edmonds, his hobby horse description is of a wooden horse. Spooner's quote was on the Golowan Festival page for many years, and has acted as inspiration for many 'skull on a pole' 'osses to be created in West Cornwall over the last decade or so. It's a very real example of not checking sources having real physical consequences. The belief that we had 'osses similar to the Welsh Mari Lwyd all over West Cornwall is now widespread. But there's not much that's been written about it beyond my own material.
 * Any help editing this page make it more encyclopoedic would be very helpful, as I am maybe a little too close to the subject. Electric Antiquarian (talk) 11:11, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the slow reply, have been busy. I'll have a time to properly go through and help with the article soon - in the mean time, I'll try and read up on some of the references so I'm a bit more knowledgeable on the topic. Thanks, Gazamp (talk) 15:35, 5 July 2024 (UTC)