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Touch up
Hi User:JoeyofScotia, can you add a bit to Maiorana page about origin of marjoram (here ), thanks if you can.--Theo Mandela (talk) 08:35, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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Pluscarden Abbey
Your recent edit in the above article contains several plagiaristic expressions. Can you revisit and correct these please. Thanks. Bill Reid | (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

@Bill Reid I edited Pluscarden Abbey. Hopefully, any plagiarism has been removed. JoeyofScotia (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Aye, thanks for that. Bill Reid | (talk) 15:30, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Source for Maghull
Have reverted and added a CN while I look into the Mayweed claim. Do you happen to know anything about the Key English Place-Names from Nottingham University? Seems legit but have never used it before. Koncorde (talk) 19:05, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


 * English place-names from Nottingham is legitimate, and is based on reliable sources, of which include Mawer's "Place-names of Northumberland and Durham"; I have used this as a citation multiple times.
 * The "mayweed" claim was mentioned in the "Brittonic Language In The Old North" (Maghull was so mentioned as it may contain a Brittonic element), but where Alan James received this from I am presently unsure.

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 * Cheers Joey. Koncorde (talk) 03:34, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Dunmallet
I noticed your addition to Celtic toponymy and followed up the reference, hoping to add it to the Dunmallet article: but I can't see Dunmallet anywhere in your source. Did you add the wrong reference? I note that you said you consulted it on 28 March 2021: please be sure to check your sources on the day you add the content to Wikipedia, in case the source has disappeared or changed, and record the access-date so that people can see when you used the source. Thanks. Pam D  11:07, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

, Dunmallet is in the source by another name (Dunmallard). I will add the various etymological explantations for this name in due course. --JoeyofScotia (talk) 11:10, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've clarified the original post. Still puzzled by your "access date". Did you copy the ref from another article? Pam  D  12:12, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I copied the reference from an article where I had used it previously.JoeyofScotia (talk) 12:13, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hmm, it might be better practice if you quickly check that the web link still works and then add today's date. Then if it does disappear and someone's trying to track it down they've at least got a more recent target date. And if you check the link and find it doesn't work today, you can dig around in your area of expertise and track it down to its new location, or find an archived copy. Pam  D  16:21, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Pictish/Common Brittonic
I’ve just noticed that in the last few weeks you’ve made fundamental changes to the relationship between Pictish language and Common Brittonic and now spinning that out to other articles like Cornish. This appears to be based on one PhD thesis from a lecturer at Glasgow University. Generally, PhD theses don’t qualify as a reliable source in WP because they are not necessarily subject to the same level of peer review as a published piece. But more than that there is a significant WP:UNDUE problem with what you have done. We don’t base articles on the opinion of one source unless that source has been generally accepted as the mainstream view. The crux of our WP:NPOV policy is “Neutrality requires that each article or other page in the mainspace fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources.” What evidence do you have that this PhD thesis is now the dominant view on whether Pictish is a different language to Common Brittonic? DeCausa (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

I apologize if my edits have the appearance of having based too much on one source.

There is little consensus around Pictish, because it is only attested as a few hundred linguistic fragments. The thesis by G Rhys has been cited in the numerous subsequent works on Pictish language, toponomy, etc (including this 2020 example by Prof Katherine Forsyth, https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/222539/1/222539.pdf, who has herself produced significant material surrounding the nature of Pictish), and the implication of this is that the work enjoys a level of acceptance among researchers. --JoeyofScotia (talk) 19:48, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I think that’s the point: “there is little consensus around Pictish”. That’s exactly what our articles should reflect. But the edits you have made project the only view as being the one put forward in this PhD thesis. There’s no harm in putting it forward as one of the hypotheses but (and I have to say that a PhD thesis is not a strong source in WP terms) to categorically state it as the accepted position is factually incorrect and infringes the neutrality requirement of WP:NPOV. DeCausa (talk) 19:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

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