Talk:List of famous Edinburgh people

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This article should probably be move from "List of famous Edinburgh people" to "List of famous Midlothian people" or "List of famous Midlothians" as Midlothian is the proper term for someone from Edinburgh.

Eh, no. I live in Edinburgh and Midlothian is not the proper term for someone from there. This article is an offshoot from the Edinburgh city article. Of couse nowadays Midlothian is a Scottish council area, and if you wanted to start a list of famous people from Penicuik or Bilston or somewhere like that in a List of famous Midlothian people, then there is nothing stopping you. Globaltraveller 12:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I feel obliged remind you that "We don't accept Trust me I'm a doctor here" and that everything we do here must be verified. Having got that out of the way, allow me to contradict myself and assure that people from Edinburgh are never referred to as "Midlothians" and this article has a perfectly reasonable title. It does however need verified, something I will now try to remedy. -- IslaySolomon | talk

Total nonsense. The title of the article speaks for itself, it is a list of famous people from Edinburgh. It doesn't enter into what the citizenry of Edinburgh are called, just that they have some kind of connection with the city. Ergo, it does not stray into the bounds of verified, unless there is some discrepancy with the content of the article, rather than the name of the article, which clearly strays nowhere near the minefield of what you might term a citizen of Edinburgh. Globaltraveller 23:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)