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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Guilden Morden boar may have adorned a helmet like those worn by the poetical warrior Beowulf?

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CE

Did a cheeky little ce, blammed a few typos, rm dupe wikilinks, added some missing biblio details moved sfns to sentence ends. Revert as desired. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 00:59, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for that careful copy edit @Keith-264:. Particularly appreciate you picking up the various errors, and adding the block quotation which keeps the drawing from bumping up against the next section. Do you have a strong preference for putting all citations at the end of each sentence? At the expense of a little tidiness I generally prefer to have the citations follow the portion of the sentence they support. --Usernameunique (talk) 01:31, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much; I prefer citations at the end but that's a matter of preference, change them back by all means. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 01:33, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Crest vs. mane

Theramin, responding here to the point you made about calling the "crest" of the figurine a "mane." I think the difference in terminology depends on whether you see the attribute as part of a figurine, or as part of a boar; crest is the term adopted by Foster, but mane seems equally appropriate. I have changed it to mane, which has the additional benefit of avoiding any confusion between it and boar-crested helmets. If the boar is taken for the crest of a helmet, then its mane, termed otherwise, would be the crest of a crest. Thanks for your suggestion, and for your copyedit of the rest of the article. --Usernameunique (talk) 05:56, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. You are welcome. I might have used have used the term "crest" too, until I saw the article on wild boar was using the word "mane". As you say, using "mane" allows us to make a useful distinction between the crest of the helmet and the crest (mane) of the boar figure. Theramin (talk) 22:35, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article

Interesting article about an object I probably would have never heard of otherwise. This is why I read Wikipedia every day. Eric Cable ! Talk 14:01, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

The reference 'British Museum a' is invoked nine times, but I can't see any mention at all of the Guilden Morden boar on the related webpage. JezGrove (talk) 23:11, 1 June 2018 (UTC) JezGrove (talk) 23:11, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

JezGrove, where does the link take you? Clicking on it now, it takes me to the British Museum's page on the boar. --Usernameunique (talk) 23:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response. I somehow got it confused with the Room 41 reference. Apologies! JezGrove (talk) 23:21, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, JezGrove. Naming the references "British Museum a" and "British Museum b" probably invited confusion; just renamed them "British Museum boar" and "British Museum room 41" respectively. --Usernameunique (talk) 23:31, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]