Talk:Vestri Obygdir

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Just to begin with, the title is wrong. Not Old Norse at all. The rest is contentious to say the least. Sorry. 83.248.231.116 (talk) 23:04, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I'd just like to say I wasnt very good at Norse a year or two ago and I'd tried to Norse-ify the name however it's clear that I failed. If you wanna know more about the Vestri Obygdir, read Farley Mowat's "West Viking". It's a great book. -EggSalt (talk) 11:20, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for the tip, I may take you up on it when I have the time.

But as for -ifying things, or generally assuming, theorizing or puzzling things together yourself, I have to tell you there are better places than Wikipedia to do it. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia is all about reliable and verifiable information from other sources than the writers of the articles, and from sources not below a certain quality at that. You can read about it here: Wikipedia:Verifiability. There is also an introduction that might be useful.

Best wishes, 83.248.231.116 (talk) 13:52, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Explanation of edits

From what I can gather, this is a Viking settlement hypothesized by Farley Mowat in his book "Westviking," and there is no other source? I rephrased the article to clarify that it's not a widely-adopted theory, including the part on the Basques and Columbus. If my edits were incorrect, please fix.

Just to be clear, I don't have an opinion on what's true or not (I tried to keep the article neutral), and it was an interesting article to read. But I think it helps to know the context and source.

Also is the Old Norse reconstruction from a source, or is it WP:OriginalResearch? Not sure so I just removed it all based on the earlier talk page comments, but don't take it personally and put it back if applicable.

Hope this explains my edits.

Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 02:11, 9 June 2021 (UTC)