User talk:M.Aurelius.Viator

Any pointers to your Celtic work?

You have mentioned that "have been consulted by and cited as a reliable source by numerous well known scholars in the field" of Celtic. I'm interested in consulting your decades of experience in the field; may you point me to any published work of yours? By the way, I also appreciate your advocacy of up-to-date and corrected terminology for Celtic. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:06, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm an independent researcher, not an academic. As I mentioned in my post, for the past 20+ years I have been a moderator of several academic mailing lists and Facebook groups dedicated to Celtic linguistics (and also Arthurian studies), only one of which is still active at the moment, as Yahoo Groups (the mailing lists' host) shut down some years back and I was not able to migrate the lists and their archives to a new host. It is through these lists/groups that I came to meet and correspond with many top scholars in the field of Celtic historical linguistics (John Koch, Patrick Sims-Williams, Xavier Delamarre, Blanca Maria Prosper, Joseph Eska, David Stifter, among others); their citations of my etymologies have mostly been pulled from my posts on those lists/groups, but also through private email conversations. I am trying to maintain a level of privacy on Wikipedia/Wiktionary, so I am hesitant to give out more information (I edited under my own name on Wikipedia for many years and suffered some harassment on and off the platform from some unhinged editors who disliked that I wouldn't allow their fringe fantasies seep into various articles, so now I am trying to stay anonymous). I can certainly provide reliable sources to back up any and all assertions that I make here. M.Aurelius.Viator (talk) 01:10, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Ah, thank you for the clarifications. My condolences for all that you suffered on Wikipedia. I'm glad I've found someone who shares my passion with making sure our proto-language work on Wiktionary and Wikipedia reflects the scholarship. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:18, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Nice to meet you as well! M.Aurelius.Viator (talk) 04:18, 19 January 2023 (UTC)