Talk:Waering/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 15:42, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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I'll have a go at this one, a fascinating first article from a scion of the Waering stock. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:42, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

• Wikilink Walter William Skeat at first instance in main text (as opp. to lead).
  • Done, not just for Skeat but for Grant Allen and Isaac Taylor as well.
• The lead image is currently obscure to most readers. I assume this is a reference to the Varangians who moved through Russia down to Byzantium, in which case the image is suitable but it needs to be appropriately captioned to explain its connection to 'Waering'. Most readers will not even have heard of Varangians.
  • Done.
    • Much improved, but the final phrase "Late Latin for Waering" isn't quite right; and you could link terms like Kievan Rus.
      • I've made another attempt at this.
• Varangian Guard is linked twice in 'Etymology and history'.
  • Done, removed the 2nd link.
• Reaney & Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford, 3rd Ed. 1997 p. 476) treats Wareing, Waring, Warin, Warring, Wearing, Wharin, FitzWarin all as from AFr Warin, OFr Guarin, Guérin, in turn from OG Warin which it asserts was "a very common Norman personal name". This seems to overlap with your Bardsley material with some additional information.
  • Partly done. I added Wearing (and the source), but this article is about Waering. I'd rather not load it up with information about Wareing/Waring/Wearing. While it is useful to show that the alternate theory on their origin carries more weight, I cited Bardsley because he explained how the name could have taken its present forms through excrescence. Personally, I think it is significant that the highest density of Warings is in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, an area of heavy Norse influence; but a proper analysis of the two theories would involve looking at the evolution of the names over time and space, something I don't have the resources to do. The "ae" in Waering is clearly Anglo-Saxon or Norse, not Norman French or Frankish. (Just to illustrate how tightly bound up French and Frankish are, even though one is a Romance language and the other Germanic, Frankish is called "Francique" in French, and it is a regional language in Lorraine. It's literally where they get their name from. In German, France is called "Frankreich," the 'Empire of the Franks.')
• "Interestingly" - best drop this as it sounds like your opinion (i.e. editorialising).
  • Done.
• "which suggests that that English town's name might likewise be derived from theirs" - again, this sounds as if it is your deduction? If so, that is not allowed (WP:OR); the statement will have to be directly attributed to a scholar, or removed.
  • Done, removed.
• Much of 'Spelling in other languages' currently appears to be uncited. We'd better show which sources you used for the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon material.
  • It isn't really possible to cite the Anglo-Saxon spelling observations without archival research (because we consistently transcribe using the letter "w" now), but the letter "w" didn't exist at that time (as laid out in the article on the letter wynn). Similarly with runic, though you will find it on Old English Wikipedia because of the alphabet toggle. I don't have direct evidence of ᚹᚫᚱᛁᛝ or Ƿæring, but Ƿæring is the only way they could have written it in Old English in the Latin alphabet. I'm going to delete the runic because it's too "out there." I do have evidence that the surname was rendered in runes in Scandinavia, just not among the Anglo-Saxons. I added a phrase explaining that "w" didn't exist, as justification for the assertion that Waering was written with a wynn.
    • I removed the sentence on writing the surname in Anglo-Saxon because I can introduce the fact that there was no "w" in Anglo-Saxon when referring to the names of Warwick and Warwickshire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waering (talk • contribs) 01:16, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
  • I've added citations for the other "other language" spelling material.
• On the palaeontologist, you could use an image such as A Eurypterid fossil described by E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering if you wanted.
  • Done
• The sentence about the Waeringopteroidea is currently uncited. It needs a source.
  • Done, although I could only find a source for the genus being named for him, so I reworded. I also stumbled onto the fact that there is a genus of fusulida named Waeringella.
• The list of notable people would look better if it didn't consist entirely of redlinks ... I guess inter-language links are enough to say "notable" but it'd be better if you could provide a source asserting notability for each name in the list.
  • Done, but should one remove the redlinks?
    • No, they're useful, providing status and (in the case of the i.l.l.'s,) navigation, but normally we'd not claim notability unless we also had bluelinks. At least we have some support for the claim, and citations.
• You could use this photo of Trinelise Væring for the 'List of notable people' section if you liked.
  • Done

Summary

OK, that seems to be well sorted now; this is a GA. I hope you found the process useful and constructive; it has been a pleasure to work with you. You'll have seen that the GAN list is long, so I hope you'll take the time to review one or two articles from the nominations list. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:30, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

• Thank you. I learned a lot from this first review. I hope to create one other thorough article like this one this year, which would make me more confident that I am ready to review others' work; but I will have a look at the list right away to see whether I could help. Waering (talk) 13:50, 2 January 2022 (UTC)