Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Castles
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Welcome to WikiProject Scottish Castles on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Scotland's numerous castles.
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[edit] Parent WikiProjects
[edit] Scope
The focus of this WikiProject is relatively narrow: it aims to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of castles in Scotland, with the ultimate goal of giving a full and detailed description of every notable castle in Scotland, accompanied with (where possible):
- Location map
- Photographs (external and internal)
- Floor plans
- History
- Description
The definition of 'castle' is a broad one, but the main focus of this project is on defensive structures of the 12th to 17th centuries.
[edit] Progress
The initial focus is on the list of red links on the List of castles in Scotland page, and the short articles in the Category:Scotland castle stubs. The Progress Page has a more comprehensive list of red links, and links to categories of articles by quality, as well as those needing images.
An improved Castles in Scotland page has also been suggested as an aim for the project, giving more of an overview of the subject rather than a simple list.
Please use Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Castles/Announcements to log new articles, substantial improvements, article milestones, etc.
[edit] Structure and Format
[edit] Article layout
No 'template' has been suggested as an ideal castle article. Please see Category:GA-Class Scottish Castle articles for examples of reviewed Good Articles. As yet the project has no Featured Articles.
The following typical article structure has been suggested as a guideline for any new Scottish castle articles:
- Introductory paragraph, including location
- History, divided into 'early' and 'later' or whatever suits
- The Castle Today - ie description of the state of the place, features etc
- Gardens - if appropriate
- Interior - if appropriate
- Other information specific to any site - ie use in a film etc.
It should be noted that this is a guide only, as each castle is different and will require a slightly different approach.
[edit] Images
It has been agreed that castle articles should contain good images of both exteriors, interiors and details of the castles. Obviously these depend on actual visits, so an external link to a site with pictures is a good idea when no free images are available.
Floor plans have been suggested as a possibility. If you have access to these, or the ability to draw them up, these would certainly be welcome, although not a necessity.
A location map based on the {{Location map}} template should be included. See the example on the right, for Edzell Castle. The map image should be placed lower on the page than images of the castle itself.
[edit] Infobox
{{Infobox Military Structure}} should be used where the castle has a predominantly defensive history. For "show castles" and later castellated mansions, it may be more appropriate to use {{Infobox Historic building}} instead.
[edit] Participants
- Slink pink
- Jonathan Oldenbuck
- Mais oui! - don't know how much I can help, but I support your efforts
- Cactus.man - adding myself, didn't realise this was up and running.
- JohnPomeranz I'll do what I can. Thanks for the pointer SuperG.
- Topbanana - Have done a dozen or two articles on castles in the past; colkour me interested but largely inactive.
- Canaen - Extension of my efforts for Clan Fraser, and other clans. Beaufort Castle is my primary objective.
- Isabella123-I love old castles, but don't know how much time I will have to help.
- HJMG - interested, may be able to help
- Wootking- I help when I can
- Tumulus - I found this project whilst creating a new page for Duntulm Castle. I'll certainly try and help as I can.
- Cloudy - I've been adding things to some castle pages, so I guess that means I can be on here!
- User:LeeNapier - Adding what I can.
- Horis - Willing to pitch in!
- Franko2nd - Will help as much as i can
- Anlace - Will help, particularly in the northeast. Am working on a couple of castle and historic building articles now in Aberdeenshire and Angus.
- Billreid Just finished Duffus Castle where i created a temporary info box until we get a real one; working on Spynie Palace (really a castle!) which is currently a stub.
- Brendandh - Strengths of the Borderland, (...and an eensy bit of the central belt and further north too!)
- Lysy - Highlands. Photos.
- Mrabbits - will help when I can.
- Antisthenes - Jumped in at the deep end by trying to sort out Edinburgh Castle. I'll try to help where knowledge and time allow.
- Kittybrewster. Special interest in Wedderburn Castle.
- Gules 11:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Gfours - I am on a mission to visit all Scottish Castles, this will save me doing a separate blog for myself, and it's something I can share with everyone.
- Bobbacon
- Phouka - I have (quite literally) hundreds of photos of castles in Scotland; I'm unsure how to help out, but I'm willing to share them! Will do what I can.
- --MacRusgail 17:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- Renata (talk) 14:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC) I'm mainly into castles in East and West Lothian and Edinburgh.
[edit] Assessment
| Scottish castle articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | Total | ||||||
| Quality | |||||||
 GA |
3 | 3 | |||||
| B | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Start | 106 | 106 | |||||
| Stub | 115 | 115 | |||||
| Assessed | 241 | 241 | |||||
| Unassessed | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Total | 252 | 252 | |||||
Assessment of the quality of Wikipedia's Scottish Castle articles is done as part of the WP:1.0 program, and the article ratings are also used within the project itself, to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done through parameters in the {{WPSCOTCASTLE}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Scottish castle articles by quality. Assessment of importance is curerntly not being carried out (see the talk page).
Articles that need to be assessed can be found in Category:Unassessed Scottish Castle articles.
See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Scottish castle articles by quality for a full listing of project articles.
[edit] Good Articles
[edit] Featured Articles
None yet.
[edit] Template
The template {{WPSCOTCASTLE}} should be placed on the talk page of articles to mark them as within the scope of the project:
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This article is within the scope of the Scottish Castles WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's articles on Castles in Scotland. If you would like to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see ongoing tasks. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. |
Instructions:
- {{WPSCOTCASTLE|class= }} is used differently depending on whether the entire article is within the scope of the project, or just a section:
- If the entire article is within the scope of the project, use |class=FA/A/GA/B/Start/Stub/NA, just like other WikiProjects.
Full instructions can be found on the template page.
[edit] Assessment team
If you want to take part in the assessment process, add your name below:
[edit] Resources
The following relevant works are available at The Internet Archive, and are currently out of copyright. They may be useful in providing background information, but up-to-date sources should ideally be consulted also.
- Royal Palaces of Scotland - Helen Douglas-Irvine
- The Ruined Castles of Mid-Lothian - John Dickson
- The Castles and Keeps of Scotland - FR Fraprie
- The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, Vols 1-5, MacGibbon & Ross
- The Story of Edinburgh Castle - Louis Weirter
