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Napier

Yes, I have looked at Napier's book (I haven't read all of the endless repetitive pages of sneering, taunting, self-satisfied rhetoric, which is anything but "forensic" IMO). Of course I haven't read all the endless pages of Wodrow either, but I have read the relevant passages. Wodrow is not being used as a scholarly source, but as the historical source of the story itself. However, I'm more than willing to admit that the article needs better sources. It's overly reliant on primary material, and it could do with recent scholarly literature. It is not "edit warring" to revert an edit and open the matter for discussion on the talk page. That is proper practice (WP:BRD), but if you want to get outside input you can do so at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring or even Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents if you think it is a conduct issue. Your own personal research, unless it is is properly published, does not, If afraid, "count" here. See WP:V and WP:RS. But published sources by scholars do. I make it perfectly clear in my comments on the talk page that a section on the debate about historicity would be entirely desirable if it can be sourced. There is no urgency. I have my doubts that this is a question of "recent" developments in scholarship, since Napier is a century and a half old. Paul B (talk) 17:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

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