User:Vanhammeruk
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Hello Vanhammeruk, welcome to Wikipedia!
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[edit] Yule
i'll be blunt. First it is universally understood that yule is of germanic origin. second, there is no documentation of the name of the druid midwinter event though it was most likely called something like mean geimrech. third the use of the term Alban Arthan is a neologoism of NeoDruids not Druids. The Druids are long dead. And use of the word Yule is purely in solidarity with anglo saxon neopaganism. The fact remains that 'alban arthan' is the more official neodruid name yet you dont mention it once in the druid yule section. also your citation should be in reference format. and if you want visitors to the Yule page not to delete your entry then i suggest you not use ambiguous statements like "it is well documented" or "it is known". and you might want to par down the size of the section to something under the length of the Finland section. But that still probably wont work because of the fore mentioned issues. In my opinion, in a third paragraph of the intro or in the intro to the neopaganism section Alban Arthan should be mentioned as synonymous to Yule by Neodruids, placing a link to alban arthan in the 'see also' section. And then put most your effort into developing the alban arthan article. Also try using non-neodruid sources because they will be accredited as NPOV. Might i suggest "A Pagan History of Europe". happy alban elfed.75.57.116.149 17:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
