User talk:Saineolai

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Edward Dorins

Can you please provide a ref for Edward Dorins? Also you might want to consider Wikifying the article. Thank you.Calaka (talk) 12:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Brontë family

I reverted this as you did not supply any [[W{:RS|reliable source]] in the article. You have replaced the text again without supplying a reference. I will revert again - please do not re-add this without supplying a reliable source for the change. Use the <ref></ref> tags to enter the reference in the text. Thanks Keith D (talk) 18:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	A Teamwork Barnstar to you for taking care of something that has been bothering me about "my" article for a long, long time. Thanks for taking the time to clear that up! Gandydancer (talk) 19:27, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Cassidy at false etymology

I suspect the examples you give are obviously from Italian, and native, not Irish. But an unsigned blog is not a sufficient source to claim a professional's work is shoddy--a claim which amounts to defamation per se. I have started a section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#False_etymology for comments. I suggest you restore the claim but only by WP:ATTRIBUTE attributing a non-self published reliable source. μηδείς (talk) 20:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for sharing. Firstly, Cassidy died in 2008. Secondly, Cassidy has already been criticised massively on Wikipedia. There is a whole debate in the History section of the etymology of the word Jazz where Cassidy’s bad work is highlighted and there is a biographical entry on Cassidy which includes some unflattering allusions to his woeful scholarship, not all of them by me. There are also many entries deriving from Cassidy’s book in the history section of the page of English words of Irish origin which were removed by other Wiki contributors in 2007. And finally, I said incompetent OR dishonest, not incompetent AND dishonest. The wording makes a big difference. I have restored the comment but in deference to you I have softened it to ‘specious and untrustworthy’ and I have provided a number of other references in support of this. I hope that this will be acceptable, as I really don’t see why an article about false etymologies shouldn’t include a reference to a book full of false etymologies.