User talk:Edmund Patrick/Archive 7

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.

At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.

As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!

Sent by Dom497 --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Edits announced in advance, for discussion?
Edmund-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.8.169.50 (talk) 12:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * sorry you have lost me, you mean? Thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 07:57, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * sorted, found your reply elsewhere. thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 08:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Quixotic plea
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. —  05:15, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The question on youknowwho
Hi EP, I am loth to add to that page, as I have given what I can with the Abbo material. The problem with trying to put Anglo-Saxon history into Wikipedia is that the mixture of oral and legendary materials is not very susceptible to the WP principles of 'verifiability' if one is trying to do more than describe the sources, or to reach towards a factual historical account. I'm not sufficiently expert on the Ragnar materials to comment on them. I chose Abbo for my own account of Edmund's death because I choose to believe that Dunstan told it as he remembered it being told, and because I considered his belief in it (and inspiration by it) to exemplify a certain kind of faith which I admire. Like us, Dunstan was concerned with the problem of historical truth, and (less like us) he was also concerned with the problem of spiritual truth. You might notice I left out the story of the goldbrook, not because I don't love the story, or don't think it has the seal of antiquity, but because I was not trying to rewrite the Corolla, which has as many versions of the Edmund story as anyone could ask for. You can't expect the Wikipedia article on the 'historical' Edmund to weigh the pros and cons of all of it. The legends, in all their forms, are historical facts in themselves, which are not improved or properly understood by trying to force them into the service of 'historical evidence', or by picking bits out of them just because they seem to fit. I could go on forever about this but I will spare you this time Molesworth 2. (!) Anywa next week St Custards will pla Hogwarts and probly lose chiz chiz so back to my lucubrations. Thanks for the good wishes and ditto to you, I am still alive just and going quietly spare. However I now have my global wiki identity. yrs aye, Eebahgum (talk) 03:34, 7 August 2015 (UTC)