Talk:Ailsa Craig

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[edit] Pronuciation

How is Ailsa pronounced? ale-sa? ill-sa? -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 02:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

"ale-sa" is pretty close. The accent is on the first syllable, the final vowel is almost a schwa.

--NSH001 23:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two infoboxes?

Do we really need an island infobox AND a mountain infobox? The article looks terrible. Propaniac 22:53, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I personally think the island one fits better as a lot of islands are "mountains".

-Ravedave 23:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree that it looks terrible. I've tried stacking them on the right, which is definitely an improvement. I don't want to lose the extra info by discarding one of them. But it's not perfect, what do others think?

--NSH001 23:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

The containing table is only needed to position one table on the left - not popular here! Glad to have started discussion on my question (posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject British and Irish hills) about 2 infoboxes. A few more island pages already have Mountain infoboxes and are probably not significant enough to justify 2 pages. This page looks better, but stubs like Barra Head do not look so good with stacked infoboxes (unless you like lots of white space). The choice appears to be persisting with some combination, or considering a box combining the info for both (going against the Mountain Project's move to reduce the number of infoboxes). There might be merit in the Island infobox including more info on the island high point. Finavon 00:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the late reply. I would be in favour of merging all of the additional content from the mountain infobox into the island infobox. To my mind, Ailsa Craig is more island than mountain (even though it's the mountain aspect that personally interests me). I think the missing details are: the lat/long coordinates and the listing ("Marilyn" in this case). — ras52 20:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

The lat/long coordinates are at the top of the page, which is the norm for geography articles. I see no point in duplicating the info- we have the grid ref in the infobox instead. I've mentioned the fact that the island is a Marilyn in the "highest elevation" entry and deleted the mountain infobox. Lurker (said · done) 13:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. In a commit message, Finavon asked "Do we need prominence?" I don't think we do: for an marine island highpoint, the prominence is always the same as the elevation. — ras52 22:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Volcano?

Does being a volcanic plug of an extinct volcano really equate to it being a extinct volcano? Isn't it just a small part? --JBellis 17:46, 30 September 2007 (UTC)