User talk:Sean MacBride

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Gaelic Traditionalism

Thank you for your edits on Gaelic Traditionalism, I am glad some people are beginning to pay attention to this article. It previously read like a piece of propaganda. --MacRusgail 17:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Tapadh Leibh for your valiant slogging through the Gaelic Traditionalism article and your excellent, bold edits. Good work! Martin MacGrath 23:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• • No problem. I informed a few neutral people about this article. I'm afraid I'm familiar enough with Gaelic culture (and Irish to an extent) to realise that it was not quite what they claim. I am glad not to be on my own with this, as the writers took my challenges personally, e.g. source material, and originally accused me of following some kind of religious agenda. --MacRusgail 21:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome; give me a prod again if it continues to go astray, and no-one seems to be paying any attention (my watchlist is absurdly unmanageble these days). The heavy edits were a good thing, but while it continues to be essentially unsourced, I don't see how it's likely to reach the giddy heights of being "salvageable". Alai 08:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Please, keep it up: my morale could easily stand the boost. :) I should stress that I was not expressing a maturely reflected personal view in that quote, just speculating as to what critics might say about GT (somewhat paraphrasing and condensing the gist of some of the commentary I've seen being bandied around about them). I hope I'm not deterring you from being conciliatory; certainly I've no desire to be unduly confrontational in my approach, just wanting to stress that the article really ultimately has no option but to strive towards encyclopaedic standards. Alai 08:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)