Talk:List of Celtic deities
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To be finished.--Rhydd Meddwl 23:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Some of this may already be covered by Celtic mythology or the pages linked from there. You may want to consider merging the pages. Choess 01:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Or else make this into a list of Celtic gods (and goddesses). I find a lot of unnecessary duplication in Wikipedia's Celtic mythology material already, and a comprehensive list (shorn of summaries) would fill a useful niche. It would be handy to organize the list of gods by provenance – e.g. classical sources (which are mainly archaeological), Welsh literary sources, and Irish literary sources. QuartierLatin1968
17:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
- Or else make this into a list of Celtic gods (and goddesses). I find a lot of unnecessary duplication in Wikipedia's Celtic mythology material already, and a comprehensive list (shorn of summaries) would fill a useful niche. It would be handy to organize the list of gods by provenance – e.g. classical sources (which are mainly archaeological), Welsh literary sources, and Irish literary sources. QuartierLatin1968
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- I think that this is a better, simpler layout than the original version. But I don't think that this page should be merged to the mythology article, as now it gives readers an easy list of Celtic Gods to refer to.--Rhydd Meddwl 17:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Copyvio
I've discovered that the verbal commentary on the various gods is reproduced verbatim from http://www.paralumun.com/celticgod.htm . I'm therefore cutting it as copyright violation; it was going to be a nightmare to have to verify and wikify the material anyway. I'll also move this article from Celtic gods to 'list of', since that's basically what we'll be left with. QuartierLatin1968 17:11, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
No great loss, since that is just one of many terse, unreferenced and error prone deity lists floating around the Web. They tend to get copied over and over, accreting both new material and new errors. They are usualy copyvios themselves.
I prefer instead to work from the detailed to the general - start with individual deity pages, make each one list the actual evidence (epigraphc, archaeological, literary) for each one, and include them in a category such as Category:Ancient Gaulish and British goddesses or [:Category:Ancient Gaulish and British gods]]. --Nantonos 19:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mullo
Who is Mullo? I can not find any reference to him as a Celtic deity. Mullo is a different creature altogether. --Sean Lotz 08:32, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gender-inclusive
I would like to propose that we consider changing the name of this page from "Celtic gods" to "Celtic deities". --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
So, no thoughts? Not many things link here, so link repair would be easy. If there are no objections I'm going to rename it. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
OK, move/rename commencing. I'll fix the links and set the redirect. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
