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Welcome! Fàilte! Walcome! This is a notice board for Scottish Wikipedians, Wikipedians living in Scotland, and anyone else interested in Scotland-related topics. Here we may suggest topics or articles in need of expansion; highlight linguistic discussions; propose common projects; ask questions; or post anything else related to Scotland, Scottish people or things, or of interest for Scottish editors.

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Contents

[edit] News

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[edit] Pages listed on Wikipedia:Peer review

[edit] Pages listed on Articles for deletion

Please do not list AfD discussions here any longer. We have a new service at:

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[edit] Pages listed on Categories for deletion


[edit] Pages listed on Templates for deletion

[edit] Images tabbed for deletion

  • Image:Scotland royal coa.jpg

[edit] Proposed stubs

[edit] Pages listed on Requested moves

[edit] Merge discussions

[edit] Pages prone to POV pushing, vandalism, or that otherwise need watching

[edit] Announcements

[edit] New stuff

Please note that none of our subpages make any claim to being remotely comprehensive: they are not, because it would be far too time-consuming and we are not aware of any method to automatically capture new Scotland-related material as it is created. But they can be used as a resource by interested editors, so you may want to visit them and click the Watch tab.

[edit] Old stuff

[edit] Requested articles

See the full list at the sub-page: Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/Requested articles.

[edit] Requested images

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
See Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/image requests for the full list.
See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Scotland. To add an article to this category add {{reqphotoin|Scotland}} to the Talk page

Preferably upload new images to Wikimedia Commons Category:Scotland or Wikimedia Commons Category:People of Scotland, so that every language edition of Wikipedia can simply access the image. The image links for Wikimedia Commons images are identical to the standard code.


Current priority requested images are:

No items currently listed.

Categorised Scottish images (some of which may not correspond with articles): Scotland | Aberdeen | Dundee | Edinburgh | Glasgow | Inverness | Stirling

[edit] Maps

Image:Gaelic 1400-1500.JPG

  • Can someone make a better version of this . Wiki needs it, and I don't have good programs. However, if no-one does do, I will do and wiki will get a crap map :). Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 15:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • New mapsets for Orkney and Shetland (example)
  • Could someone do one of those location maps for Evanton. That bit is blank at the moment, and I am tempted to use the Dingwall one. :) - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 11:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Individuals

[edit] Locations

I would like some images for location articles I've created

[edit] Buildings

  • Headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland in St Andrew Sqaure; the RBS offices in Gogarburn; head office of the Clydesdale Bank in Glasgow; a bank branch of the RBS. Astrotrain 17:23, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for expansion

[edit] Very short articles

The following articles are very short, three sentences or less. Some of them can be considered substubs. Some of them have recently been created from the list of requests above, others have been around longer. All would benefit from being expanded.

[edit] Other articles

[edit] Requests for Article attention/review/comment/cleanup

  • Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair - a slightly scrappy article which ( if i remember rightly) i basically translated into English from a Gaelic source. Hopefully if i have time over Christmas period il give it a proper tidy and expand/bring it up to a decent standard but itd be great if some others could have a quick look at it and fix anything they think needs fixing. siarach 15:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Scottish Reformation article has been started. Because I also live in the real world this article will take a long time. But I'd like any feedback anyone would care to give on the article so far. Slackbuie 21:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Dùn Èistean - i dont think it needs any real clean up as such, im just hoping some others will have a look at it and improve it in anyway they think is necessary. siarach 11:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Scotland - I think the article looks good and could be a great candidate for a Featured Article, but it needs major work on the references, copy editing and a maybe a slight paring down of the History section. I've added three or four refs today. I'd like to get this ready for a Peer Review by the end of the month as a first step to FAC. Any comments or help will be appreciated.--WilliamThweatt 04:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Gaelic Traditionalism - an article of a dubious nature (google topic and ~900 hits with the article and mirrors of it appearing as the most prominent) which is misleading in giving the impression that this pagan movement has any links to existing Gaelic culture/community within Scotland or Ireland.
  • I have proposed a page move to rename this article. Anyone interested in commenting, please go to the article's talk page and weigh in. Thanks.--WilliamThweatt 22:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Page was moved yesterday to Clannada na Gadelica. Still needs cleaned up for propoganda and POV.--WilliamThweatt 04:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Barnett Formula - seems a bit POVish in some areas to me, but am not sure how to go about tackling it. Article seems to conflate several areas that don't seem strictly relevant. Would appreciate it if someone could take a bit of a look? Globaltraveller 20:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Battle of Harlaw - Has been rewritten as of 1/6/06 but could do with a bit of a review and read through. siarach 15:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Isle of Skye - history and culture
  • Beith
  • James Chalmers
  • Talk:William Reid
  • Bank of Scotland
  • Scottish Episcopal Church - request for comment, expanded history, and a modest clean-up. Was the church formerly officially called the Episcopal Church of Scotland? If so, when did the name-change occur?--Mais oui! 06:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC) Underway
  • Torphichen Preceptory - still has Cleanup notice
  • Transport in Scotland
  • Create redirects for all Scottish football clubs, like this: Keith_FC (without dots) which redirects into Keith F.C. (with the dots) --MacRusgail 15:26, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Guys, anyone fancy helping out in purging WP/WC of the redundant saltires? I started this a few weeks back when replaced the main versions with two SVG versions: Image:Flag of Scotland.svg and Image:Flag of Scotland (traditional).svg. I've mopped up almost all of the images that were used previously, such that on en.wikipedia we're down to just the two new ones. However wikimedia commons has: Image:Scotland flag 300.png (usage) and Image:Flag of Scotland Pantone300.png (usage) - these are used a fair bit on the other language wikipedia sites. I'm going to work my way through them, but if anyone fancies lending a hand then great.
    Would you beleive this has also lead to me replacing the Flag of Tenerife too!
    Thanks/wangi 16:41, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Billy Kay - just put up a short article on the author and Scots language expert/activist which could do with expanding i think.
  • University of Strathclyde needs some fact checking
  • Tillicoultry - There is still work to be done, esp wrt sources etc, but reviews/comments welcomed
  • Atlantic Ocean - This is a request for your opinion on place names (before I post RfC). The problem arises following attempts by a Wikipedia user to seek out references to "England", "Scotland" and "Wales" and replace them with "United Kingdom". One example of this can be seen at Atlantic Ocean where User:Owain recently made changes including changing text from "Aberdeen, Scotland" to "Aberdeen, United Kingdom"; from "Liverpool, England" to "Liverpool, United Kingdom"; and from "Newport, Wales" to "Newport, United Kingdom" etc. I believe that:(1) the edit was non-sensical, totally unnecessary and politically-motivated; (2) the edit made the article imprecise in not giving sufficient detail to pinpoint a place by omitting the obvious (i.e. the country), and gave less information than the original edit; (3) to deliberately ignore the country is to disrespect the people, culture and traditions of those nations;(4) there have been a large number of edits to this page by many other Wikepedians, all of whom saw no problem with the identification of the country. Can we please have some Scottish views on the convention to be used when referring to British place names? -- Maelor  15:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Royal Consorts of Scotland - Lots of work. Good concept. A table of consorts of the monarchs of Scotland. Big problem is that it includes Henry VIII as a monarch of Scotland. Everything after Mary is English. I don't have the know-how to fix it. Image:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn Image:Icons-flag-scotland.png 05:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scotland-related articles carrying a Cleanup tag

[edit] "since August 2005"

[edit] "since November 2005"

[edit] Possible candidates for featured article status

[edit] Current Featured Article Candidates

  • none

[edit] Scotland-related articles that are Featured articles

[edit] Scotland-related articles that are Good articles

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 0.5

[edit] Nominated

[edit] Possible candidates articles for deletion

  • Celtophobia (AFD discussion) Deleted before and created again.
  • Chosp - fictitious place

[edit] Current informal projects

Wikinews has news related to:

[edit] Wikinews

--Mais oui! 12:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Finished informal projects

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[edit] Scotland-related stub markers (templates)

Consider tagging short Scotland-related articles, with a designated stub tag. For general Scotland stubs, write this {{Scotland-stub}} at the bottom of the article. (All such articles are listed in Cat:Scotland stubs)

In addition, external links to webpages that are only in the Scottish Gaelic language, can be marked by a template called template:gd icon, inserted by typing {{gd icon}} in front of the link (displaying this image (Scottish Gaelic)).

External links to webpages that are only in the Scots language, can be marked by a template called template:sco icon, inserted by typing {{sco icon}} in front of the link (displaying this image Template:Sco icon).

[edit] Scottish geography stubs

We now have a full set of 32 stub markers, for each council area. The first 5 have their own cateoryies already. The others will get sorted into the main Category:Scotland geography stubs until they reach a reasonable threshold (about 50-60 articles):

[edit] Language discussions

Please post links to discussions which regard translation, definitions, usage, etymology, pronounciation etc of elements of our three languages, and the indigenous dialects of English. (Please provide the relevant discussion page link, with a brief description: please do not engage in the discussion itself on this notice board page.)

[edit] English language discussions that are Scotland-related

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[edit] Highland English

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[edit] Scottish English

Diagram showing the geographical locations of selected languages and dialects of the British Isles.

[edit] Scottish Gaelic language

[edit] Scots language

[edit] Other linguistic discussions that are Scotland-related

This book is available to legally and freely download, and is an excellent read on this matter. Lianachan 16:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
You might want to check that link... Shimgray | talk | 16:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Talk:Scottish-Gaelic creoles
This is, of course, a silly joke. There are no such creoles. Gaelicmichael 19:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Erm, yes there are, seemingly. They arose in Canada in some places apparently. --MacRusgail 18:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjects on Scotland-related topics

[edit] Specifically Scotland-related

[edit] Directly Scotland-related

[edit] Important topics for Scotland-related articles

[edit] Requested Scotland-related WikiProjects

[edit] Scotland-related resources/references

[edit] Our subpages

[edit] Other


[edit] External

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[edit] List of participants

  • --Mais oui! 06:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • --dave souza 19:28, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Interests: history, life, the universe and everything with a Scottish connection
  • --Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 23:35, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Derek Ross | Talk 07:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Interests: nothing in particular, just stuff...
  • --Doc (?) 11:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
    • various -esp history and religion
  • --GraemeL (talk) 12:26, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
    • No specific interests.
  • --Kilo-Lima 20:46, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
    • The weather.
  • --Mendor 14:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Interests: language, politics, politics of language, language of politics... possibly Scottish food as well
  • Alai 14:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • --Canaen 26 October 2005
    • Interests: Scottish Clans, Scots, Scots Gaelic, Scottish History, many more.
  • Supergolden 12:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • --MacRusgail 15:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Berek 12:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Mainly History and Geography-type articles.
  • Vclaw 18:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    • various politics things, some university related topics, as well as assorted places, mainly in the Edinburgh area and the Highlands.
  • Forbsey 15:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
    • No specific interests
  • Maccoinnich 01:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Architecture, Edinburgh, The Highlands mostly
  • Leithp (talk) 22:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Various rubbish.
  • AllanHainey 13:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Camillus McElhinney CPMCE 10:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
    • various polititics, mostly Marxist, some Sport
  • An Siarach 16:45, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Scottish and British history, especially medieval.Islamic and Middle Eastern civilization. Language change in the UK and the world in general.
  • Calgacus 17:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Medieval & Ancient History; pre-Stewart Scotland, esp. Galloway and the Mormaerdoms, and language; Angevin "imperialism" and mythology; general Medieval European periphery.
  • Erath 12:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Nach0king 18:46, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Sports, politics, history. Anything, really.
  • Gaelicmichael 15 December 2005
    • Gaelic language, literature and folklore, Scottish history and culture
  • Benarty 29 December 2005
    • Scots language, Scottish history and culture, Shetland and the Norse legacy, Scottish football
  • Cactus.man ✍ 10:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Belated addition of self - architecture related, historic buildings, art, sourcing appropriate images, plus whatever takes my fancy as I travel about the place here :)
  • Pinkyogamuffin 19:00, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Scottish history, art and architecture. Particularly interested in writing articles about Edinburgh's districts, and can take photographs when possible/necessary.
  • User:Historian - I live in Japan but am of Scottish ancestry (Aberdeen and Glasgow). I recently added the category of Users who support the Scotland national rugby union team and entered myself as the first user.
  • AntzUK 19:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Radio and Television in Scotland/UK.
  • Hellinterface 14:55, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, Edinburgh and surrounding areas. Geography, culture, other bits and pieces. Images & maps.
  • Angus McLellan 00:35, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Late as usual: history, literature, trivia. I'd be happy to collaborate if you're aiming for a translation into French (like this one, not very good), or into Dutch if you're desperate.
  • Slink pink 13:25, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Globaltraveller 19:58, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Anything really, especially the Scottish Economy, Public Sector Organisations in Scotland, Scottish legislation, Scottish places etc
  • Deizio 11:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Billreid 12:49, 13 April 2006(UTC)
    • History in general and of fishing industry in paricular. Also old railway companies.
  • Dj Dr Akira Gonzo 20:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Scottish Goth Culture and Music, Deathrock, Goth Music, Dumfries and Galloway.
  • Lianachan 12:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Many various interests, mainly contributing in articles relating to the history, pre-history, archaeology and culture of the Scottish Highlands. Particularly interested in placenames, and in

the Iron Age highlands.

  • Zeroforconduct
    • Currently editing a stub on William Roughead; bouquets and brickbats welcome.
  • WilliamThweatt
    • History of Scotland (all eras, but primarily medieval to "the 45"), Highland history & culture, Highland clans, linguistics, a lot of WikiGnomish editing (categorizing, adding references, cleanup, etc.), various others topics.
  • KieranT
  • Astonmartini
    • Scottish archaeology, history, and music, Aberdeen and surrounding areas, and more that I can't think of at this point and time. Railways too. And castles.
  • Lurker
  • Fergie
    • I put in some of the early legwork on the Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin (well John Rebus actually) pages. I was also the contributer who dragged the Inverurie page out of stubsville. That said, I have been unforgivably lazy on the wikipedia-scotland front. Particularly interested in Scottish literature, language and geography, generally interested in everything about Scotland. Emigrant: for 7 long years I have harboured intense unsated cravings for fish suppers, dark ales and steak pies.
  • Slackbuie
  • douglasnicol
    • Interested in Scottish local history on the West coast and Firth of Clyde, Scottish Clyde steamers, shipbuilding, military history, the Cold War and various Science Fiction shows. Also a Tolkien fan.
  • Brendandh
    • Likes: Castles, Abbeys, Border warfare, Kingdom of Northumbria, pre-reformation Scotland, the germano-celtic interface and medieval weaponry.
  • Kathryn NicDhàna
    • Family and Clann histories, folklore and folk practices, mythology, languages, religion.
  • Archibald99
    • Scottish sport, Scottish geography, other various nonspecific stuff.
  • Br2387
  • Rincewind42 15:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
    • History, geography and language; both Scottish and Chinese. From Paisley, Renfrewshire. Now resident in Anshan China.
  • Ben MacDui (Talk) 21:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
    • The Highlands and Islands in general and the Hebrides in particular. Social economy and renewable energy issues.
  • Malathos 19:12, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
    • An expat, now living in New Zealand. Scottish Castles, Edinburgh and geography in general.
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