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October 2018. It Is MacGillycuddy's Reeks, not Macgullycuddy's Reeks

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Per Irish academic Paul Tempan, the author of Hills and Mountain Names in Ireland (and an expert in Irish placenames), the spelling is MacGillycuddy's Reeks. See also the Bibliography section of this article for the correct spelling which all authors on the range have used. For future editors and administrators, please don't REDIRECT this page to Macgillycuddy's Reeks, which is the WRONG spelling. Britishfinance (talk) 15:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk19:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

View from Carrauntoohil of the eastern Reeks.
View from Carrauntoohil of the eastern Reeks.

Improved to Good Article status by Britishfinance (talk). Self-nominated at 11:44, 12 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good to me. EchetusXe 15:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • The article has close paraphrasing which must be rewritten in your own words:
  • Source: The MacGillycuddy was one of the few Gaelic chieftains to have his lands restored after the Cromwellian confiscations, a circumstance which helps to explain why the name has survived to this day. The MacGillycuddy family tomb is at Kilgobnet, between the mountains and Killorglin.
  • Article: The MacGillycuddy was one of the few Gaelic chieftains to have his lands restored after the Cromwellian confiscations, a circumstance which helps to explain why the name has survived to this day. The MacGillycuddy family tomb is at Kilgobnet (Kerry), between the mountains and Killorglin.
  • Yoninah (talk) 13:09, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Good spot. Wouldn't have thought there would have been paraphrasing in a GA.EchetusXe 15:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done This was a direct quote from the reference (and repeated as a quote in the reference). I meant to add the quote marks to note this, however, have decided to re-write the sentence (although the ref still gives the exact quote) for good order. Hope that works. Thanks. :::::*Britishfinance (talk) 21:29, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Consistency needed

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Is the range called "MacGillycuddy's Reeks" or "the MacGillycuddy's Reeks"? (I prefer the latter. The man was know as "the MacGillycuddy".)

Should its name be treated as a singular or a plural? (Again, I prefer the latter. "Reeks" is a recognisably plural form of a more-or-less English word.)

The article is inconsistent on both issues. Maproom (talk) 07:54, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A 450—310 time interval does not correspond to the Upper Devonian

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The statement that the rocks MacGillycuddy's Reeks "date from the Upper Devonian period (310–450 million years ago)" is incorrect. The upper Devonian period was from 419 to 393 Ma. This presented 140 Myr rime interval (450-310 Ma) would stretch across four geological periods: Late Ordovician 458-444 Ma, Silurian (444-419) Devonian 419-358 Ma and Early Carboniferous (359-347 Ma). Moreover, there is a contradiction between giving a 140 Myr time interval and stating: “During this 60 million year period …” Also note that the Upper Devonian period only spanned 26 Myr. Testatorsilens (talk) 12:13, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]