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Over on Wikiversity, there is a plan to generate some audio content for Burns Night.
Ideally, this needs some Scottish Wikipedians to assist in getting the content written and recorded. Ideally, an Ayr dialect could be used to record Burns poetry itself.
If there's interest, I'll provide a link to the Wikiversity page. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 22:28, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I have just discovered an account which has been puffing up Scottish Labour politicians, and removing referenced material which shows said politicians in a poor light. I have left a warning at User talk:Paulineward, but would appreciate if other experienced Users went through the mass of edits on eg. Wendy Alexander, which nearly all lack an Edit summary. A worrying amount of ip and other redlinked-user activity on Labour MSPs bio articles.
Thanks in advance. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 07:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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Category:Poetasters is proposed for deletion!
Object or support -- voice your view 'ere completion!
Shall Wikipedia ignore the profound connections among all
The glorious rhymsters like
William McGonagall,
McIntyre,
Moore,
McKittrick Ros,
Or
J. Gordon Coogler (some might think it a loss),
But others [to comply with
WP:CANVASS provisions],
Might deem this deletion a darn good decision.
Decide for yourself, and (here
[1]) make your views known,
On the category for poets for badness renowned!
--
JohnWBarber (
talk) 18:14, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
The issue of how to deal with UK political parties in Wales and Scotland in intros and infoboxes has been raised centrally at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom#The Labour Party or Welsh Labour /Scottish Labour Party. Your participation in the discussion would be welcome. Daicaregos ( talk) 18:19, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Bruce McFee, a Scottish politician, is an unreferenced living person (BLP), so it will probably be deleted if it is not referenced. I have no expertise in this subject. Could someone in this project please reference it?
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An editor has recently moved Rhynie to Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, creating a disambiguation page at Rhynie. This has left a lot of articles linking to the disambiguation page that should be linking to the Rhynie article. I've updated Template:Marr, Aberdeenshire places, which is the source of many of these mis-links, but What links here seems to take a while to catch up with transclusions, so I can't yet tell how many more need to be updated. I've also fixed the redirect that was left at the talk page of the new disambiguation page. -- Deskford ( talk) 10:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I would like some input at List of sovereign states by formation date where there is a disagreement over the UK formation date. It appears there are a couple of editors who believe the date should be 1689 and not 1707. Thanks. Jack forbes ( talk) 13:35, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Steven Purcell - a glasgow council leader who just resigned. Various rumours about drugs, and he's gay. Real recipe for dunderheid vandals and BLP problems. I'd appreciate some clued-up people watchlist this. Thanks.-- Scott Mac (Doc) 18:50, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
FYI, {{ Scottish English}} has been nomiated for deletion. 70.29.210.242 ( talk) 05:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm very sorry to say that Second War of Scottish Independence, a "high" class importance article for WikiProject Scotland, is in peril for copyright concerns. If nobody else does anything, I will replace it with something myself rather than see it gone altogether, but I'm very much hoping that somebody with background in these issues can rewrite the content in the temporary space now linked from the article's front. This is a very unfortunate situation where the author of the books placed the content himself in good faith, but his publisher has not relinquished rights. We have no choice but to remove or completely rewrite any content he has found to have duplicated from his own works, since they hold copyright. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
We received an email (OTRS 2010032010020282) questioning whether the bonnet shown on Balmoral bonnet is a Balmoral bonnet or a Kilmarnock bonnet. The sender of the email is of the opinion that the Balmoral bonnet did not have a visor. They cited two books to which I don't have access:
I suspect someone here may have one or both of these books (or access to them). Can someone verify this information and correct/clarify the Balmoral bonnet article accordingly. If the image is actually a Kilmarnock bonnet, we may need to have the image moved on Commons. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:25, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
I have been absolutely astounded to discover that Wikipedia lacks articles on the Peebles Hydro, Turnberry Hotel and the Caledonian Hotel. How many other fine hotels are missing? I have created a couple of redirects, but really, we have so many wonderful sources, that we ought to begin some articles. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 05:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
An odd little discussion at Talk:Angus MacAskill, which I moved on to File talk:MacAskill with Tom Thumb.jpg that someone may be able to resolve. Is it a photo of the bold Angus or of the Belgian giant J. Bihin? 10:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
This article was created back in November 2009 and since then it's become a magnet for vandalism and unsourced additions by IP editors. It has been reverted a couple of times to previous versions, but can someone from this project who is familiar with this topic take a look at the article? Thanks, PDCook ( talk) 22:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
We seem to have an anonymous editor who wants to share their memories of Jim Murphy with the world. Unfortunately, this isn't really in line with our WP:BLP policy, among others. I'll not be around much this week, so if anyone would care to watchlist this article that would be great. Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi I am interested in the Links between Scotland and Flanders . Scotland - lion rampant Flanders - Lion Rampant
In particular the links with Berwick as the "New Alexandria" , in terms of Importnat trading links with Mainland Europe ie Flanders , superior technology , in weaving , which led to Scotland as the Main Wool Exporter in Europe , contributing to the Weath of the Abbeys of Melrose , Red Hall etc in Berwick , and the Links with Robert deBruce( deBruges) , to see the Dynastic struggle in a European Context as the Flemish Law of Succession ie of the Flemish Royal line , from the time atleat of King David I who married Queen Mahilda of Flanders .
Hi. I made a new map for Edinburgh to put landmarks on with a pin. See Balmoral Hotel for how it works. If anybody wants me to make similar maps of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee or wherever let me know. I am happy to also make them in two different scales, one further out capturing the suburns and one capturing the main urban core. If people could add these to infoboxes for Edinburgh landmarks this would be great. If the infoboxes for some reason don't accept pushpin let me know as I'm hopgin soon enough to introduce them to all building/landmark infoboxes. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:52, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Yeah. What I mean is see Template:Location map United Kingdom Greater Liverpool, Template:Location map United Kingdom Liverpool and Template:Location map United Kingdom Liverpool Central for what I mean. I don't plan on creating three for every city, it was just a trial and error... I can make a Greater Glasgow/Aberdeen and a central Glasgow/Aberdeen maps. I can also make a more central Edinburgh map if you want it. I'll do that tomorrow for you. If anybody specifially wants an even more detailed map of a suburn or district of these cities so you can make out roads let me know. You'll have to ask me on my talk page though!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:55, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Sure, I'll create them this evening. Will do Stirling/Perth as well. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Aargh I made all the maps you requested and one of Sterling and one of Dundee but they didn't come out right. I tried uploading a few and they came out as like 97px. The only successful two I had were Template:Location map Scotland Edinburgh Central (see Balmoral Hotel now) and Template:Location map Scotland Glasgow. I'll try making the others again later, I think I must have exceeded the map limit... Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:25, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Right. If I upload them one at a time it seems to work. I've now made Template:Location map Scotland Glasgow Central. See Glasgow International Hilton Hotel for it in use. If you like I can make an even more central map of literally the city centre. If so I can move the current Glasgow map to Greater Glasgow and the current Central map to simply Glasgow. Up to you folks. Now I'll try Aberdeen..
Here you go Template:Location map Scotland Aberdeen see Central Library, Aberdeen. A lot of work needs doing with adding infoboxes to Aberdeen structure articles. If you want I can make a central Aberdeen one too. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
In that case heres another present Template:Location map Scotland Aberdeen Central. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
If you want any maps of Scottish islands like the one for Beaumaris Castle too let me know. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:24, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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I've created Template:Location map Scotland Aberdeenshire. See it in use on the right and in the article Crathes Castle. I know it includes some territory of neighbouring counties but it is supposed to just be a segment of Scotland. If you like I'd be happy to create some maps like this for each area of Scotland, I'm doing the same with Wales see Template:Location map Wales Pembrokeshire and I'd be happy to create the map with a window locator in the corner so you know where in Scotland it is like the Wales ones. However, a consensus will be needed. Personally I think such a map shown on the right (with a county locator of Scotland added in the corner) is a better scale than the current one being used for all Scottish settlements. If you disagree please let me know. What 'm trying to say is that the current map being used to locate places like Aberdeen is twice the height than it needs to be. It doesn't really need to include Shetland. Regional maps can be made a segments of Scotland window added in the corner like the one on the right. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
This is all wonderful stuff. However, I am also a fan of things Shetlandic and I dislike these boxes - just out of curiosity are you aware of other national maps that don't include the entire country in the correct place? Denmark & Norway must have problems with Greenland and Svalbard, but they are much more distant. Ben Mac Dui 19:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Well I also am a fan of the Shetland and islands, I love rural places but I just think the current map being used although it hasuseful relief is not economical in terms of space. You can crop a bit of Scotland which inlucees the county and feature landmarks of it and have a map of Scotland in the corner. It isn't "dissing" Shetland or the rest of the country so to speak but it is just presented to the reader with a better focus in my view. I would be happy to create more maps, although for Highland such is the scale I can't fit the entirely of the big region in in one map and if I do it the next scale smaller it is a little too small. The best thing would be to create a Highland North and a Highland south map with overlapping territory. If you have a window map in the corner readers can see what part of the country you are showing anyway... Would you also like me to create a location map Shetland Isles? Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:25, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
What do people think of the relief map on the right? You folks like relief maps don't you?... I could make relief maps of areas of Scotland? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I agree. I would actually recolour them blank white/cream if I could but I don't know how to do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I've now got a bit of time to work on my promise from last
June. I've got about 6500 non-bio articles awaiting tagging for WP Scotland, although I haven't gone through them to just check their suitability manually yet. There's also a couple of thousand more for the daughter projects. It occurs to me that before doubling the size of the Project, it might be a good idea to clean up what is already there. My thoughts were something along that suggested by
Ben previously, to not tag things with the main project "if they clearly fall under the scope of one of the sub-projects unless they are of high or top importance" and I'm unenthusiastic about doing things like albums which have an active Project of their own and as Ben says, discourage people here from more specifically Scottish articles.
I think part of the problem is that the importance tags are all over the place, so don't really do their job of funnelling people towards the articles that need work - for instance at one stage there was a whole load of fairly minor post-1707 laws tagged with both England and Scotland and a whole load of other Projects, at either High or even Top priority. Some of the stats I gather for my bot could help sort those out a bit, if people thought that was worth doing. I could also knock articles down into the daughter projects if people thought that was a good idea. Just thinking out loud, would things like the Edinburgh and Glasgow projects fit better as taskforces of the main Scotland WP banner rather than as separate Projects, to emphasise the unity of WP Scotland? I'm not fussed either way, but I know some people can have strong views on that kind of thing and it can be easier to sort it out before I get tagging. It seems the worklist is growing, but I'll get on with the backlog of assessments first before I add more articles.
FlagSteward (
talk) 19:07, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
There is currently a list of Grade I listed buildings for each English county, but currently no lists of the equivalent Category A buildings in Scotland. To fill this gap, I have begun gathering information, and have set up a 'template' article, covering the Clackmannanshire area (mainly because it is a small and manageable list!). This draws on existing featured lists such as Grade I listed buildings in Manchester and Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane. Since this would be the first of potentially 32 lists, I'd like to get it right from the start. The draft page is at User:Jonathan Oldenbuck/LB in Clacks, I'd welcome any comment or suggestions for improvement. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck ( talk) 10:43, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd intended to post about this before Ben mentioned it above. Something's not quite right in the Religion in Scotland hierarchy. Most religions have separate articles like Buddhism in Scotland, apart from Christianity in Scotland which just redirects to the main RiS article. Which is fair enough, but it mebbe breaks the hierarchy a bit and I guess one option could be to turn the redirect into a full-blown article, perhaps largely incorporating History of Christianity in Scotland. As it is we have two largely overlapping articles - HCS and Christianity in Medieval Scotland, neither of which get read much (~120 views/month and ~500views/month). For such important topics this suggests that something's not working rather than a genuine lack of interest in something with such a rich history. Maybe we just need to WP:Build the web a bit - HCS wasn't even linked in the history section of RiS before I put in a {{ main}} link, but I wonder if we need to do something more fundamental about the way these articles are organised? FlagSteward ( talk) 14:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Two other articles that I've encountered in my travels. I know it's been proposed before, but Black Watch and Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) need to be either merged or reorganised so that one contains just a summary of the other in a proper parent/daughter hierarchy. At the moment you've got two articles that pretty much duplicate each other, which is the worst of both worlds.
Scottish national identity is a right dog's dinner, apart from needing a major copy-edit it is aiming completely at the wrong target - it's more like an account of the Central Belt's attitudes to England since the Union than what the title implies. With a big chunk of History of Scottish devolution. If anyone fancies making it reflect attitudes from Lerwick to Ayr, and to acknowledge that Scotland existed before 1707.... There's also a specific issue relating to the Sunday Herald archive if anyone has easy access, I've mentioned it on the Talk page.
UK Local Authorities are inherently notable. Yet many council names are currently redirects to articles about places; which are not the same thing at all. I feel we should do the same for all authorities which don't at the moment have their own articles. For example, I recently split Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council out from Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom#Councils vs Places; what are your thoughts? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:46, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
A minor controversy has broken out at Pibroch where one user and a small number of apparently single or at least little used anons etc. seem keen to remove most references to "Pibroch" and replace them with "Piobaireachd" with our without accents. The talk page consensus (such as it is with so few contributors) suggests little support for the latter version, although editors should form their own opinion. Either way, a few extra watchers would not go amiss for the time being. Ben Mac Dui 17:31, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
The Falls of Cruachan derailment article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots ( talk) 06:33, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Could some admin *please* do something about User:193.63.72.130? I know it's a shared IP but I'm being led a merry chase around Wikipedia and they're vandalising as fast as I can revert and I'm getting tired of it. Akerbeltz ( talk) 13:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I note that "The Signpost is delighted to report the announcement of the British Museum's Featured Article Prize: five prizes of £100 (≈$140/€120) at their shop/bookshop for new Featured Articles on topics related to the British Museum." Lewis chessmen anyone? The "controversy" section would need especial care of course. Ben Mac Dui 17:13, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Tiree contains the following: "Writing in 1549, Donald Munro, High Dean of the Isles wrote of "Thiridh" that it was: "ane mane laich fertile fruitful cuntrie". I have tried to provide a translation into modern English in a footnote but what, in this context, does "mane" mean - "mainly"? Ben Mac Dui 17:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
There is current disagreement on the map used in the Scottish place infobox template. I should preface this request for comment with the statement that while the old map that I prefer was created by me I am in no way attached to it (alternatives and multiple choices are more than welcome to be put forward), but rather I am a firm believer in the principles of consensus building and content decisions being made by editors, not being enforced by "everything must be the same" crowd without discussion or consensus building. Consequently I am seeking feedback on the infobox map from others, because I feel that the "standardisation" methodology essentially short-circuits the very philosophy and wiki principles of WP. SFC9394 ( talk) 22:08, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Obersachse has a long standing obession to revert every relief map even though the consensus with WP:Scotland is to have a relief map. If he perissts either report him to an adminstrator or keep reverting him. He thinks he can overpower the consensus of entire wikiprojects. Well the consensus with Wp:Scotland is to use a relief map, right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:01, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been putting together articles on various of the smaller militant/terrorist groups for ethnic and religous minorities, and ran across a few names of Scottish nationalist groups that don't yet have an article, mentioned in this book: Law, power, and justice in England and Wales By Ian K. McKenzie. I find bits and pieces of mention of the SRA various places online, but nothing reputably citeable. Are the Scottish Republican Army, the Tartan Army (distinct from the football hooligan club?) or the Army of the Provisional Government of Scotland worth covering as individual organisations? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 16:04, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, as part of the reviewing trial, I just accepted an edit] on good faith. Could someone please take a look, and undo it if it's incorrect? Thanks, – Schmloof ( talk · contribs) 21:30, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Fellow Scotland editors, could I please draw your attention to recent discussions at Talk:Cairnorrie about some articles on Aberdeenshire places far too small to call villages, and invite further comment? -- Deskford ( talk) 22:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
i am currently researching the free man on the land concept, the use of the notice of understanding and intent and claim of rihgt and of the notary public amoungst a host of other topics. the only thing is it all seems to be either England, Canada or the U.S. it applies to, ive heard talk of as long as you are in a commonwealth country it applies. in these days of the growing power of the corporations and the erosion of our civil liberties and sovrienty, this looks like a good way to insure our freedoms and our inalienable birth rights. it would be most appreciated if anyone can let me know if they know anything about this subject and how it applies in Scotland.
sites i have visited: TPUC.ORG WORLD FREEMAN ON THE LAND SOCIETY THINKFREE.CA SPIRITUALECONOMICSNOW.NET —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.102.8 ( talk) 18:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
i put a post on here the other day entitled police---dna, i now see this post has been removed, i want to ask the cretaors of this site if they are for the enslavment of the scotish people or maybe they are advocates of the rape of young downsyndrome children, i would also like to ask why the lord advocate of scotland Elish Angiolini or grampian police have not invetigated the matter of hollie greig and brought it into the public arena. i would also like to ask why the lord advocate is useing law firm Levy & Mcrae to threaten those who are trying to bring this matter to the attention of the public. why was Robert Green the man who is fighting for justice for hollie arrested instead of helped by grampian police? is it because there is involvment of this hienous crime from the bottom up, and further? I hope at least some people that concider themselves to be part of the human race see this post before it is removed. it is only a matter of time before this matter is outed. this subject makes me sick to my stomache as i hope it does any one who has the chance to read it before being erased. i am only a normal member of the Scotish public that came across this subject by chance and could hardly believe what i was reading. if you would like more on this subject please please please visit http://www.davidicke.com/articles/child-abuse-mainmenu-74/30693-scottish-paedophile-ring-exposed or just google her name and please let as many other people as you can know. thank u for you're time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.28.103 ( talk) 16:32, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
On looking thruogh this site i thought that any topic that related to scotland was relevant (my apologies if this is not the case). I thought the toics that i brought were relevant to the people of scotland, again my apologies if this is not the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.52.100 ( talk) 17:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:Listed buildings in the Borders, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.
Hi! I have proposed the creation of WikiProject Tayside and Fife to improve the quality of all of the articles which fall into the scope of the project. I would hope that members of this WikiProject would like to indicate their interest in the project. If you would like to join please add your name on WikiProject Council/Proposals/Tayside and Fife. If the project gets a reasonable amount of interest I will create a draft of the WikiProject (after consultation with editors who are interested) in my userspace and then will create the WikiProject. Thank you. Andrewmc 123 14:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
And in other wikiproject news, Wikipedia:WikiProject Glasgow has been deleted under speedy deletion criterion G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page. I assume interest in the project never took off? Anyway, I nominated the project template for deletion also, see discussion. Although, there are a dozen or so project categories also.... sigh. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck ( talk) 20:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
I took a peek at the Pending changes trial. Anyone wanting to watch articles currently so protected that are relevant to this project may have to stick to:
and arguably:
The full list is at Category:Wikipedia pending changes protected pages. Ben Mac Dui 17:10, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
List of fictional Scots, has been listed for deletion Please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional Scots. Thanks, Colonel Warden ( talk) 05:50, 10 July 2010 (UTC)