Talk:Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde

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Ponies, sheep and Goats. I just found an article with the names of varieties of Sheep Goat and Ponies on Holy Isle. All rather special. While there are no entries for Soay sheep or Eriskay ponies yet there are entries for Soay and Eriskay, and they have dead links to the sheep and ponies. So I have put deadlinks in too. Is that right? At the moment it would be more helpful to put Eriskay ponies but not so good in the long term. I'm not going to write the article on Eriskay pony, I've just met them on Holy Isle. What can I say? "They were very nice, if a bit timid". As for Soay sheep [[1]] some one please make a start. Nothing on Sanann goats so left in goat.

By the way the article also mentions seals, butterflies, cormorants and oystercatchers, and yes they were all there, but not quite as notable. I have heard a rumour there is a temporate coral reef in Lamlash bay which is far more interesting.

By the way yes 130.88.96.66 was me. (Logged in on one Mozilla tab but not the other. Strange)

Billlion 23:37, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with red links, providing one can have a resonable expectation that someone will one day write an article for said thing. There's pretty extensive coverage of breeds of cats and dogs, and I think for races of bee, but not so much for other animals. A brief google suggests that both eriskay ponies and soay sheep are indeed breeds in their own right, so I think the red links are fine. But remember that you can start an article without having to finish it - it's quite reasonable just to write a two sentence stub with an external link or two (google shall provide). Of course one reasonably would add links to them in pony and sheep respectively, and before you know it you've been sucked off into sheepland. There appears to be an artificial reef at Lamlash, btw [2] - heck, that page alone (reefballs!) would make a great wikipedia subject. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:49, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)