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A fact from MacGillycuddy's Reeks appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the peaks of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Ireland's highest mountain range, are all on private property?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/MacGillycuddy's Reeks.

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

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]

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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View from Carrauntoohil of the eastern Reeks.

... that the mountains of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Ireland's highest mountain range, are all on private property? Irish Times

Reviewed: John Robert Martindale

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
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good to me. Echetus Xe 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.Echetus Xe 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]

Thank you. Restoring tick per EchetusXe's review. BTW @EchetusXe: GA and DYK criteria are not alike. Please stick to DYK review instructions for your future reviews. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 19:03, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Consistency needed

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

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]