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09:2409:24, 12 April 2012 diff hist +120 Odin Misleading and not relevant to lede. "Day of Woden" was not chosen to coincide with "day of Odin", but as a calque of "day of Mercury". Also OHG cognate was "Wôdan" not "Wotan".

03:5403:54, 11 April 2012 diff hist −355 Elf Can work this into the article later.
03:0603:06, 11 April 2012 diff hist +719 Elf Making a start on a rewrite/cleanup.

23:1823:18, 5 April 2012 diff hist +1,426 Talk:Easter →Repeated Removal of Ēostre Explanation from the Lead: Reply.
22:0122:01, 5 April 2012 diff hist −3 m Talk:Easter →Repeated Removal of Ēostre Explanation from the Lead: Fix.
22:0022:00, 5 April 2012 diff hist +744 Talk:Easter →Repeated Removal of Ēostre Explanation from the Lead: Reply.
20:3020:30, 5 April 2012 diff hist +662 Talk:Easter No edit summary
20:1520:15, 5 April 2012 diff hist +5 Talk:Easter Looks dismissive.
20:1220:12, 5 April 2012 diff hist +538 Talk:Easter Reply.
19:5919:59, 5 April 2012 diff hist −10 m Talk:Easter No edit summary
19:5819:58, 5 April 2012 diff hist +477 Talk:Easter Reply.
19:4519:45, 5 April 2012 diff hist +501 Talk:Easter No edit summary
19:3319:33, 5 April 2012 diff hist +38 Easter Intro shoudn't read like a statement of fact, it is an exclusively Christian claim from a few related texts.
19:2919:29, 5 April 2012 diff hist −538 Easter Easter and Anglo-Saxon/contemporary pagan celebrations are not the same. The prechristian Anglo-Saxons did not celebrate Jesus' supposed resurrection, and the source doesn't say that they did.
19:1319:13, 5 April 2012 diff hist +2,825 Easter Undid revision 485761553 by Bloodofox (talk) Per FoxCE. Lede already has link to Ēostre, and addition doesn't add clarity.
14:0614:06, 5 April 2012 diff hist +340 Easter Small additional note.

01:3301:33, 14 March 2012 diff hist +2 English language "Old English" does not refer to a collection of "languages and dialects", it collectively refers to the various related Germanic dialects spoken throughout south-east Britain at the time.

00:5600:56, 29 February 2012 diff hist +1,251 Christmas More on suppression, to place the Scottish section within a wider context.
00:2300:23, 29 February 2012 diff hist +321 Christmas Small expansion. Can't leave this out; source lists it as being one of numerous causes of the "swift and dramatic" turnaround.

12:2512:25, 19 December 2011 diff hist +284 Wōden Should've seen to this sooner.
12:0312:03, 19 December 2011 diff hist +462 Christmas All you have done is copy/paste ref. markup. Please (on the talk page) show using the source provided that "sectarian tension" promoted the celebration of Christmas and that the phrase "dying out" is appropriate. Nothing Dickens-related was removed.
08:3108:31, 19 December 2011 diff hist −181 Christmas Unsourced, and not even explained (how does sectarian tension promote the celebration of Christmas? Where is the evidence for Christmas nearly "dying out" altogether?).

07:0407:04, 13 December 2011 diff hist +173 Christmas →Other names: Slight expansion and tweaking to match sources.
06:3406:34, 13 December 2011 diff hist +221 Christmas Listing services first given Christmas' very definition/etymology and origin; "Yuletide">"Yule", Yule is the original name and is more common today; fixing deadlink.
03:5903:59, 13 December 2011 diff hist −11 Christmas →Other names: Editing to conform fully with source provided, which states "... until 1038 the feast of the Nativity was described in Anglo-Saxon literature simply as 'midwinter'" etc.

20:2920:29, 12 December 2011 diff hist +22 Yule Term not found in either the OED, the CD, or various other dictionaries; a Google Books search for "Anglospherean" returns literally one correct result; definitely shouldn't be used in a Wikipedia article.
17:3117:31, 12 December 2011 diff hist +13 Christmas →Reformation into the 19th century: Doubt many outside of the Anglosphere will understand the context of this.
17:2517:25, 12 December 2011 diff hist 0 Christmas →Other names: Capitalizing first instance.
04:1704:17, 12 December 2011 diff hist +1,773 Christmas Expanding etymology section.

20:2720:27, 11 December 2011 diff hist +1,038 Talk:Christmas →Yule
19:2619:26, 11 December 2011 diff hist +1,276 Talk:Christmas →Yule
18:4518:45, 11 December 2011 diff hist +10 Christmas Multiple editors seem to support Yule's addition. Will remove again if discussion favors my initial removal.
18:4018:40, 11 December 2011 diff hist 0 Yule Capitalization not needed, no period.
18:3618:36, 11 December 2011 diff hist +1,067 Talk:Christmas →Yule
18:1218:12, 11 December 2011 diff hist −10 Christmas Undid revision 465316761 by Bloodofox (talk) This does not make Christmas (commemorating the birth of Jesus) and the pre-Christian Yule "related" celebrations.
14:3714:37, 11 December 2011 diff hist −10 Christmas Undid revision 465239542 by Bloodofox (talk) Christmas was intended by the Church in N. Europe to be a replacement for Yule. That does not make them "related" celebrations. They are not.
02:2102:21, 11 December 2011 diff hist −10 Christmas Undid revision 465219293 by Bloodofox (talk) As said, the birth of Jesus is no more connected to Yule than any other midwinter/solstice celebration. They are not "related".

16:1016:10, 10 December 2011 diff hist −10 Christmas Missed this -- Yule is not "related" to Christmas any more than any other midwinter/solstice celebration, and they certainly aren't related in a religious sense, i.e. the birth of Jesus and the winter solstice are not related events.
15:4715:47, 10 December 2011 diff hist −8 Christmas As the Xmas article states, "Xmas" is an abbreviation of the word "Christmas", not a seperate name FOR Christmas. Listing it in the 'Also called' section of the infobox implies that "Xmas" and "Christmas" are substantively different terms/names.