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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.
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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)
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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)
I am aware that there is a tendency for people who join a community to think that the "good old days" were the period shortly before they arrived, and, whilst that isn't my view about WP:Scotland, I do think things have changed, and I wonder why.
Relatively speaking, there does seem to be less of a sense of collective endeavour. Perhaps this is an inevitable and even welcome aspect of a maturing project. After all, in the early days setting up the project with its associated sub-pages and activities involved a degree of collaborative work that isn't necessary once they are largely in place.
Nonetheless, here are a few, perhaps subjective observations. The Scotland article and its talk page was the place that I "met" many Scottish editors. There was a genuine drive to improve the article but for various reasons this is no longer happening. Given the fractious nature of some of the dialogue this may not be such a bad thing. Ditto perhaps the remarkable red link Scotland in the Modern Era. Scotland-related AfDs don't seem to attract much attention from members of the project. The sub-projects have become the place where some dialogue takes place, but they tend to be the preserve of a small number of specialists. I don't know if anyone is paying attention to new articles - wherever the list has gone.
Wikipedia is huge and Scotland is a pretty big relative to the population. This isn't a social networking site and I am not trying to create interaction for its own sake but I am curious as to what others may think. Ben Mac Dui 08:48, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
I know Scotland has been involved with a number of battles and wars with England over the years, and these are reflected in Wikipedia, but their must be many many substantial tribal and intra wars with Scotland. There doesn't seem to be any articles about this, or indeed any timeline based articles that contain it, and link it togther, like 'List of' articles. scope_creep 00:25, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
I want to do a bit of work on places in North Ayrshire and I have restarted the list of stubs relating to NA - {NorthAyrshire-geo-stub}. However they are not appearing on the page and I think that is because when the page didn't exist they were all automatically sorted onto the West of Scotland stubs page. Is there some way of removing North Ayrshire as a category from that page so that I can maintain them separately? I tried to do it but it didn't work so need help from an expert! The SCOWNB suggests there should be 60+; I know there are quite a few already and I am adding more. Thanks. Lord Spring Onion ( talk) 15:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
On reading the article on Graham Spiers yesterday I noticed that it was tagged with {Citecheck}} and {{Content}} so had a wee look at the edit history to see what was in dispute. Looking at the material in contention it seemed to me to be notable, cited and to fairly represent the cited material. There was a later addition, actually while I was simultaneously commenting on the talk page, which I felt needed some tweaks to make it representative of its citation but was also worthy of inclusion.
The two users involved in the dispute appear to have crossed swords in other articles and I don't particularly wish to become involved in the merits or de-merits of their previous discussions. Suffice to say the material in contention, regarding writings by the article's subject on aspects of Scottish football and their wider cultural imapct, is in the kind of sphere where there may be hints at agendas motivating users edits. I don't feel I should have to decipher cryptic references on talk pages or base my judgement about an edit on the perceived previous "form" of a user, to the exclsuion of its own merits.
Would anyone care to take a look at the article, the material in contention and the discussion on the talk page? Mutt Lunker ( talk) 12:20, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Good news folks. Remember my talk back in May about Open STreet map locators? Well you'll all be pleased to know we now have quality locators of Scottish counties thanks to my good friend Nilfanion. I need your help though in installing them into articles on Scottish buildings and also I need some support to ensure that the UK place template is updated to display towns on county locators if there is consensus for it. I want to do the same with Wales but user:Plastikspork said it was very dfficult to parse. If so then it might be feaisble to recreate a Template:Infobox Scottish place and a Template:Infobox Welsh place with different programming. Other than that I propose a converison to a stabndard infobox settlement for Scotland and Wales so we can simply display towns and village on the maps.
Here are the following maps:
Please remember the naming system. You add map=Scotland Orkney etc to the infoboxe map name.What I need now is some help from guys like Ben and Jonathan etc to add infoboxes/maps to existing articles on Scottish landmarks castles/houses/hotels/churches/museums etc by county and gradually install them. Dr. Blofeld 13:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Try Aberdeenshire now. It just had the old map that's all. Well I was judging by what Plastikspork said, I got the impression from him it would rquire hours of coding work, maybe he was just busy. Trust me I'd rather not have to make seperate infoboxes. If you can update UK place box so it displays county maps of Wales and Scotland like England this would be great. The good thinkg about the county maps is that they provide much better insight and also show where in the county it is. If you could update all of Scotland and Wales to show county maps like England this would be be highly desirable. Given that England uses county maps I can't see why anybody would complain. Stirling looks great!! Dr. Blofeld 18:09, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Try Edinburgh now. Once again dated map was not replaced with the new one. Dr. Blofeld 19:44, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Once Nilfanion has updated the England maps with England county locator windows like Wales and Scotland they can probably replace the current maps which have too dark boundaries on them. Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
The maps that I've uploaded so far are pretty minimal, but are important as building blocks. The immediate goal is to replace the blank maps in the template with exchange maps like File:Newport UK map roads and areas 3.svg (which will take a while to generate), and those currently used for the English counties. For human geography, roads and cities are more important than rivers and mountains - whilst the reverse is true for physical geography.
A blank political map is particularly useful for highlighting areas compared to more complex maps as the subject is not "lost" in the clutter. I've used the Shetland one to create 7 maps of Shetland highlighting some of the larger islands ( Fair Isle, Fetlar, Foula, Mainland, Unst, Whalsay and Yell), these "replace" ones like File:Unst.PNG.
Due to the additional complexity I won't be uploading relief maps any time soon, but they more appropriate for physical geography - such as for mountains.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 11:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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Does anyone know much about the writer Deborah Leslie, currently up for deletion? I can't find much by way of independent sources, though I believe her books are widely used in schools and she is regarded as an advocate of the Doric dialect. This may, as claimed, be a vanity article — it seems to have been created by a single-purpose account — but I'm not sure. -- Deskford ( talk) 15:23, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hello. If there's anyone planning to be in the National Museum over the weekend, it would be great if we could get a pic of the Newstead Helmet. The article will probably get more eyeballs than usual with the Crosby Garrett Helmet helmet being in the news. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could help me. I started trying to edit the Sci-Fun page a few weeks ago and have run into a few difficulties. Somebody has tagged it as reading like an advert, despite the fact that throughout I tried to state facts of what SCI-FUN does without ever offering praise or opinion. Somebody has also noted in the discussion page that I should not be writing the article as I work for SCI-FUN and this is against Wikipaedia's neutrality policy. I'm now in a dilema, in that I apparently can't edit the article because I'm not neutral, but if it does not get edited it may be marked for deletion.
Would anybody be able to help me out please? Could someone please read it to see if you think it reads like an advert, then either edit it if it does, or remove the tag if it doesn't.
Thanks in advance for your help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.60.53 ( talk) 08:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I've begun fleshing these out with some info and sources starting with letter A, some of them contain no information. I've proposed a remain of Category:Skye villages to Category:Villages in the Isle of Skye.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
A discussion on a move that may be relevant to this group has commenced here. Relevant opinions would be welcome. Justin talk 19:11, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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Noting this IP edit, I had been going to revert it. It is similar to the issue that arises on the Recent Deaths page when a person is identified as Scottish or British. However the IP's position does seem to be in line with the WP:NAMES policy by stressing "the country of which the person is a citizen". My recollection is that there is a more detailed WP policy somewhere covering the constituent countries of the UK, but I can't recall where. Anyone point to that? AllyD ( talk) 09:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 20:17, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
New user and was directed here to Scotland WikiProject. The Halloween page is being revamped and it needs input from Scottish users on discussion as its too North American centric right now. Getting more Scots input where Halloween was first celebrated, and guising, would give a balanced global overview of the holiday and its customs. Also some ambiguity over the term 'holiday'. ColinBurchill ( talk) 23:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
The election pages for the two-tier era of local government (1978-1994) have different title formats: Scottish local Regional elections, 1982 but Scottish District local elections, 1984. Is one preferable or would it be much easier to have them all at Scottish local elections, Year? Timrollpickering ( talk) 22:59, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI: proposed renaming of Category:Scottish Unionist Party politicians and Category:Scottish Unionist Party MPs, to match head article Unionist Party (Scotland).
Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 16#Scottish_Unionist_Party. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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Though many already exist, tere are many articles that have not yet been written on various Scottish glens and Scottish rivers. In many cases, particularly in the Highlands, an article on Glen X would overlap considerably with one on River X - has there previously been discussion on this topic? I looked around but couldn't find any guidance that might have been put together by WikiProject Scotland members as to whether it was more desirable to have say an article on Strathexample or Glen Example and another on River Example or whether it might be best to have the river as a section within the larger strath/glen article, and employing redirects from River Example to Glen Example If the former then certainly the two articles would want to be wikilinked but with the latter ie one article, it would make for less duplication and a better all-round read. Any guidance/thoughts? - cheers Geopersona ( talk) 10:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)