User:Doric Loon



OK, I am the Doric Loon. It's about as obscure as most Wikipedia usernames, but I found myself having to think of something fast. "Doric" is the dialect and culture of the part of Scotland I come from (around Aberdeen), and "loon" is the word in that dialect meaning "lad", "guy", "fellow" or whatever. As you see, it's frightfully original.

In real life, my name is Graeme Dunphy, and I teach university in Würzburg, Germany.

My Contribution to Wikipedia
I've been editing here since November 2004, and started out (before I had a username) creating the articles Jans der Enikel and Martin of Opava.

My particular enthusiasms are Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, literature, medieval studies, historical linguistics and migration studies, and you are likely to find me sticking my nose in wherever several of these interests come together. I have a degree in German, a degree in Biblical Studies and a doctorate in Medieval literature, and I am a professor of Translation, so I bring important expertise in those fields. Most of the other things I contribute on are just hobbies. Apart from that, I have to admit I'm a bit of a pedant about grammar and punctuation, so I do tend to make minor edits as I read, even on topics I know nothing about at all. I also edit occasionally on the German Wikipedia, and on Wiktionary, and I'm interested in becoming much more active on the Scottish Gaelic Uicipeid.

For some reason that I really can't remember, I briefly edited under a different profile back in 2005, mainly on German children's literature.

You can find statistics on my Wikipedia contributions here. A list of around 200 articles I have started can be found here.

General

 * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies

Mediaeval Literature and Culture

 * Medieval German literature
 * Jans der Enikel also in the German Wiki: de:Jans der Enikel
 * Dukus Horant
 * Kaiserchronik
 * Anna von Munzingen
 * Martin of Opava
 * Der Marner
 * Biblia pauperum
 * German Wiki: de:Christherre-Chronik
 * Medieval Chronicle Society
 * Medieval popular Bible
 * Medieval etymology
 * Karl Heinz Göller
 * Brian O. Murdoch
 * Philipp Strauch (scholar)
 * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
 * Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus
 * Template:emc1 (use: )

Renaissance and Modern Literature

 * Paulus Merula
 * Migrant literature

Germanic and Indo-European philology

 * Germanic verb
 * Germanic weak verb
 * Germanic strong verb
 * Preterite-present verb
 * Indo-European copula
 * Indo-European ablaut
 * Indo-European s-mobile
 * Umlaut
 * Grammatischer Wechsel
 * Germanic spirant law
 * High German consonant shift
 * Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
 * Italo-Celtic
 * Template:Germanic philology

English, Dutch, Yiddish, Hebrew

 * English verb
 * Pronunciation of English th
 * English relative clauses
 * Dutch language (the comparative section)
 * Dutch spelling
 * Yiddish language (the section on Old Yiddish)
 * History of the Jews in Scotland (the section on Scots-Yiddish)
 * Yogh
 * Waw-consecutive
 * German Wiki: de:Scots (Scots language)
 * German Wiki: de:Schottisches Englisch (Scottish English language)

Grammar

 * Linguistic prescription
 * Split infinitive
 * Relative clause
 * Weak inflection
 * Tag question
 * Adverbial phrase

Scotland

 * Aberdeen Grammar School
 * Both sides the Tweed
 * Ceartas
 * Clì Gàidhlig
 * Culloden, Highland
 * Cutty-sark
 * Gaelic road signs in Scotland
 * Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland
 * Hiberno-Scottish mission
 * Westhill
 * Eliza Junor

Britain

 * The empire on which the sun never sets
 * Sukey

Germany

 * Vergangenheitsbewältigung
 * Reich
 * University of Regensburg
 * Scots Monastery, Regensburg
 * Hemau
 * German Wiki: de:Max-Buchhauser-Garten
 * University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

Church of Scotland

 * Bishops in the Church of Scotland
 * Hymnbooks of the Church of Scotland
 * Kirk
 * List of Church of Scotland parishes
 * Skene Parish Church
 * Barn Church, Culloden
 * St George's-Tron Church, Glasgow
 * English Reformed Church, Amsterdam
 * St Andrew's Church, Rome
 * List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries
 * List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
 * James Aitken Whyte
 * Ministers and elders in the Church of Scotland
 * Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
 * Ordination of women in the Church of Scotland
 * Sermon on the Mound

Sundry

 * Religious trauma syndrome
 * Deutschmeister-Palais
 * Scratch Messiah
 * Kave Shtiebel

Barnstars
(Recipient no. 2662 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:19, 19 October 2021 (UTC))

Conflict of Interests
Since I am professionally involved in academic research and sometimes write on Wikipedia about the same topics I publish on elsewhere, there can be the appearance of a CoI between my roles as a participant in academic debate and as a neutral Wikipedia reporter on this. My experience has been that most Wiki-colleagues understand this but I have been pounced on before for what someone saw as self-promotion, and I want to be careful to do the right thing. The best way to deal with this is probably just to declare everything up front and then if anyone sees this as a problem with my edits and approaches me about it courteously, I will accept their judgment.

CoI issues mainly arise with the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, which I edited and now occasionally use as a source when working on Wiki articles about chronicles; with the Medieval Chronicle Society, since I created the Wiki article on it and have since been elected as its president; on YWMLS, for which I am now joint general editor; and with topics in literary studies on which I have published, as I cannot help holding the same opinions when writing about these on Wikipedia, which sometimes forces me to cite my own research. You can find my publication list here, and judge for yourself whether I handle this properly.

I notice that another wikipedia editor has started a mainspace article on me. I wish it to be known that I did not request this, I do not know the editor concerned, and I will not be editing that article. I strongly doubt that I meet the notability criteria, but that is for others to decide. There is a discussion related to this here.

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