User talk:Mutt Lunker

Mixup at Clark

If you just double-check the history at https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Clark&action=history you will see that you reverted my proper reversion of vandalism. I have reverted your reversion, so all is well. But can you remove the notation from my talk page? Thanks! 50.174.200.16 (talk) 09:15, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Beg your pardon, my error. Mutt Lunker (talk) 09:20, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Walter Scott

You assume rightly. Good catch. --Antiquary (talk) 12:00, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Mutt Lunker (talk) 12:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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early modern english

I saw the thing about mad in a documentary on philology, it wasn't OR, but I'll find a source. :) --Monochrome_Monitor 19:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Ok, fine but I think you'll be pushed to find a source that says that sense had been lost in British English (Collins and Oxford note somes senses of "mad" as British or US but not this one). I think the usage may be slightly different in Britain in that it's less likely to be without a context ("it makes me mad" rather than "I'm mad") but it is used. Also, can only find references to the origin of the word with sense "insane". Any further discussion would be best held at the article talk page. Mutt Lunker (talk) 19:39, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah, here's a 19th century English (as in England) dictionary which defines mad as "disordered in the mind, broken in the understanding, distracted, expressing disorder of mind, over-run with any violent or unreasonable desire, enraged, furious. An 18th century dictionary has basically the same definition, but with long s's --Monochrome_Monitor 19:28, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Scotland - Capital

Hi! Gary here, No I am okay with that....I just thought London was correct as well. Thanks for letting me know. Gary. GaryFG8125 (talk) 01:12, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Scotch-Irish

This is botteville. For some reason, probably Wikipedia reaction time, I did not at first get the reason for your reversion of my changes, and hence did not understand it. Now I see, it is not that you were defending error, but that my statement appeared to you to be not comprehensive enough. It is now clear to me that fly-by changes are not going to work here, and that the topic needs research. I like doing it, I was interested in them anyway. It surely must have struck you that American Scotch-Irish does NOT mean Ulsterman, at least not in America. All that material and those statements need to be corrected, and Andrew Jackson does not belong in that article, nor Buchanan, Grant, or Jimmy Stuart or any of the rest of them, unless it is corrected. I am NOT going to start telling my relatives from Lorneville, Nova Scotia, that they are of relatively recent northern Irish extraction. Don't you agree? Moreover, Canadian Scotch-Irish does not differ from American Scotch-Irish; in fact, I never heard of such a division. We always refer to the main population of Nova Scotia as Scottish. The population of the two countries is relatively mobile. The only difference you notice is that when you cross the river at Machiasport they start saying "hey?" quite a lot, except for Quebec. I don't move very fast on these things but that is who I am and where I stand. I will take each one of your remarks seriously, but you need reasonable reasons. Ciao. I got other things to do now. I may take a break for a while. Later, whenever.Botteville (talk) 21:50, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

See Talk:Ulster_Scots_people#Requested_rewrite. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:59, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Mutt have a chat whenever Just a quick one from Britain's point of view. In emigration terms in the 19th century, Scotish means from Scotland, Gaelic or Lowlands. Scotch-Irish means the Scottish Protestants that were put into the north of Ireland in and around the 17th century but emmigrated to America for more or less the same reasons as their Catholic neighbours. Irish means the rest of Ireland's emigration which was mainly in other parts of America. Sorry if I'm stating the bleeding obvious, but like I say happy to chat

Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoorybrig (talk • contribs) 00:25, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello sir,

What is your opinion on today's stacks? I wonder how big of an impact gozilla had on the global stacks market, depending on Japan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.183.20.198 (talk) 22:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Cease edit warring on the page for Barbara Allen

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Barbara_Allen_(song), you may be blocked from editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.241.194.45 (talk) 02:56, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

See Talk:Barbara_Allen_(song)#Origins and revert your blanking of the tags that facts in the article are disputed. Also, as requested, read WP:BRD and provide the requested quotes from your purported sources expressly regarding origins. Mutt Lunker (talk) 08:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Notifying you about the dispute

I have responded to your claims here, and as per wikipedia rules I am notifying you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Obstructive_IP_editor_at_Barbara_Allen_.28song.29