User talk:Sigurd Dragon Slayer
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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Celts
You had indicated on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals page that you would be interested in working with a project dealing with Celts. The project is now active at the page linked to above. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 18:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Elves
We can safely report Fimi's statements regarding Tolkiens opinion of the celtic as fact. The reason is that there are no other reliable sources which contradict these statements and the reference acts as the attribution. If we did have a reliable source which said otherwise, then we could include those and show where both opinions originate. It would be great for the article if you could find sources and add content which opposes Fimi. As it is, Fimi's statements are uncontroversial, and changing the article text from neutral-cited to vague-attribution introduces wp:weasel see wp:Npov#Attributing_and_substantiating_biased_statements. Further, directly attributing Fimi is redundant (the reference already attributes her), and would lead to almost every sentence starting with "insert name says ...", all of which would be made redundant by the reference unless the point is controversial (like the relative weights of the norse/celtic influence is). --Davémon (talk) 12:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Personally I have no POV on Tolkiens influences as you claim. If you'd like to add any referenced statements showing the Finnish/Norse/Anglo-saxon influence on Tolkiens Elves to the article, please do so, they'd really, really help. I've taken your suggestion of attributing every statement to its source in the text, rather than leaving it in the reference. Can't say it reads as bad as I'd feared. --Davémon (talk) 23:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The Celts as Barbarians?
Your thoughts and/or comments are requested here. Thanks. —Aryaman (Enlist!) 14:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
