Wikipedia talk:WikiProject King Arthur/Archive 2

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight FAC
This article is up for FA status, and if it passes it will be our first FA! Have a look. Wrad (talk) 23:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Other
WikiProject Celts is a very relavent related project.---G.T.N. (talk) 23:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Sub-Roman Britain Wikiproject
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Articles about ready for GA:

 * King Arthur's family
 * King Arthur's messianic return

-- Wrad (talk) 19:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Popular pages
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Redirects: King Arthur or Matter of Britain?
For the purposes of consistency and intuitiveness, I have directed the following redirects to King Arthur: Arthurian, Arthurian legend, Arthurian Legend, Arthurian legends, Arthurian Legends. Some of these previously redirected instead to Matter of Britain (and one redirected to something unrelated entirely). However, I think King Arthur is the more natural redirect location for the reader, and the article deals much more comprehensively with, well, the "Arthurian legend" than does the Matter of Britain article currently does. Whatever is decided consistency is needed; a reader who types in Arthurian Legend should be taken to the same place as if he or she typed in Arthurian legend. What do others think?--Cúchullain t/ c 14:40, 14 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me :-) Hrothgar cyning (talk) 09:58, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. - PKM (talk) 17:40, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Call for editors to help manage religion related content
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 19:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Funny edit on Merlin
I hope someone else other than me saw this on their watchlist. Hahaha, SADADS (talk) 10:22, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

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GA reassessment of Parsifal
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:Parsifal/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

'Glaestings'
Anyone recall a discussion about this? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 10:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikiproject Anglo-Saxon England
Hey all, we are proposing a new Wikiproject at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. Please garnish you support if you are interested in supporting English and British History articles from 410-1066. Sadads (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Various writers and copyists conflated her with, or named her as Nimue, Viviane, Viviana, Vivienne, Elaine, Niniane, Nivian, Nyneve, Nimueh and other variations.
The Name Nimue, once carved into stone by the King while witnessing the Angels, Arthur meets the Godess of The Lake, the original stone with this name also tells about the celtic influences in the reincarnating life of King Arthur, who once created an ogham stone - the first written language of Ireland, letters have washed off till time of its first discovery, the name Nimue originaly meant a name of an ancient godess, who there fights to save Arthur, the name of this ancient Godess would ever be the same since ages before civilization and today, Her name also signifies the fundament of the pyramid which lays down in the earths crust hidden chambers, covered with stones, little hill called the Holy Mountain of Emer, where Gods of Heavens promised to build a pyramid for the Godess, so here Nimue - is a washed off on stone name Emer. The legend of King Arthur also should say that Arthur was through his unfortunate life a constant alcoholic as He was holding The Holy Grail, telling about the Curse of Avalon. Alcohol makes then why till today all information about Him seams very uncertain. The Knights of the Round Table Only did actually know what was going on in the blessed and reincarnated life of King Arthur called also - Avalon, and why the place where He died is wearing the same name, Arthur used to give names to places and once died in an ambush wounded with an arrow. In His last wish He named the Village with His own name- Avalon as He would know where to return to seek back His challenge. When they were pulling out the arrow, He asked the name of the Knight.- This fact of Arthurs complete madness known by an example of british humor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.141.58.121 (talk) 20:12, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Round Table Found? 2010
Supposedly in Chester. http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/historians-say-theyve-located-king-arthurs-round-table/19550471

Thought about putting it on the Arthur talk page, but figured it would be better off here. Sorry it's a blog, but it includes links to the sources they used (and that could probably be used for a Wiki update ;) )

Please forgive my lack of log-in as I seen to have misplaced my credentials O_O VulpineLady 74.4.86.220 (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know why Gidlow is quoted as claiming Gildas wrote about Arthur, when Gildas never mentions Arthur (Gildas has posted a blog confirming that he never wrote about Arthur . This link at least has some other commentary in it. There's a documentary on the History Channel Monday the 19th at 9pm. Dougweller (talk) 05:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * the issue isn't in who said what, the issue is the "discovery" of the Round Table. I get the "nitpick for accuracy" bit, I just wasn't sure if the Authurian Wikipedians had heard the news yet. (logged in YAY) VulpineLady (talk) 05:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Gidlow participates in a discussion commenting on an interesting blog piece here. Dougweller (talk) 05:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Nice. Did anyone catch the History Channel show? A friend threatened to record it for me, but I managed to avoid it.--Cúchullain t/ c 13:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
I have created Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels and tagged it for this project - anyone want to assess it? Comments and suggestions welcome. - PKM (talk) 01:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Possible expansion of scope of the project
I have proposed possibly expanding the scope of this project, and a few others. For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:54, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

pronunciation
When I tried filling in the pronunciations at List of geological features on Mimas (which are named after Arthurian figures) I found that it's quite difficult to document many of them. I assume that they must have standardized Modern English pronunciations, even if some have more than one. We should have this at the Knights article too. Anyone know a ref? — kwami (talk) 17:07, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Merlin (1998 film)
I wrote in the discussion page at the voice Merlin (1998 film) because I think something is missing there. Please go and read... Thanks and sorry for my English, since I'm Italian... 79.50.254.64 (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed MOS for Religion
There is now a proposed general Manual of Style for Religion and other articles relating to ethoses or belief systems at WikiProject Religion/Manual of style. Any input would be welcome. I personally believe at least one of the reasons why many articles in this field have been as contentious as they have been is because of lack of such guidelines, and would very much welcome any input from others to help come up with some generally acceptable solutions to some of these problems. John Carter (talk) 22:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

If Arthur existed, why doesn't Taliesin mention him?
Taliesin and Arthur should have lived at roughly the same place and time. Taliesin does talk about a battle in 583 so he should have known about Badon and Camlan. He loves to name-drop about historical events. If Bede supressed Arthur for religious reasons, we can hardly same the same about Taliesin. He should be in one or the other. To me this seems like strong evidence against Arthur's existence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.136.107.153 (talk) 06:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Arthurian Legend
Arthurian Legend has been requested to be renamed, see template talk:Arthurian Legend -- 76.65.130.165 (talk) 11:37, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

John Dee, King Arthur, and the Conquest of the Arctic
Thomas Green has written a new article on the subject which looks like an excellent source.. Dougweller (talk) 18:54, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Category:Arthurian locations at CFD
Category:Arthurian locations has been proposed for deletion/renaming at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_2. DexDor (talk) 17:48, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Historicity of King Arthur needs work
Please see Talk:Historicity of King Arthur/Archive 1

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Project relevance
Just wondering, but is this project still relevant? It doesn't seem to have much activity. It has 10+ year-old articles listed in the 'new' section, and GA reference that was delisted over a decade ago. Even the newest additions to the 'new' list are not new and aren't even getting much activity themselves. If nothing else, it should be spruced up a bit (and have the 'new pages' section re-written). Thanks, ogenstein (talk) 02:59, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Árbol Genealógico.
Hola. Hice un árbol genealógico de la Materia de Bretaña. Creo que aquí podría ser bastante útil.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%81rbol_Geneal%C3%B3gico_de_La_Materia_de_Breta%C3%B1a.jpg

Cualquier corrección o método de incluirlo en un artículo de Wikipedia sin que se vea borroso será bienvenido. Christian Alexis Arroyo Ortiz (talk) 21:27, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . ¡Gracias! DanCherek (talk) 07:55, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

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