User talk:Jameshewitt1987

Stop editing Wigan
Hi.

You have made copious edits to the article Wigan concerning the town's etymology. Unless you can provide some sources other than dictionary entries for an Old English word wigan, then please cease doing so; in order for a source to be included it must specifically state that the place-name Wigan was derived from those words which, in this case, it didn't do anything of the sort. You had a source saying it might have "come from a word for war" (a claim that the same source refutes), coupled with two dictionary entries for the Old English verb wigan meaning "to do battle", of which neither made the remotest reference to the town-name: aggregating pieces of information that aren't necessarily connected in this way is called "original research", which at Wikipedia, we don't allow. In other words, you need a source that says something to the effect of "Wigan is derived from the Old English verb wigan", before that can be included.

Also, the fact that the name was first attested only after the Celtic period firstly isn't true (1199 is the first known mention of Wigan, whereas Cumbric may have survived in some parts of North West England until after 1200), and secondly in any case irrelevant to its etymology. Many place-names go unattested for centuries after they were first coined. Another thing: place-names are rarely simplex verbs: instead comprising of nouns or personal-names or both. --Thanks, JoeyofScotia (talk) 22:13, 17 October 2019 (UTC)