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Welcome to WikiProject Scottish Islands / Fàilte gu Wiki-Proiseact nan Eilean! / Walcome tae WikiProject Scots Isles!

We hope you enjoy your visit to this new project, which was created in July 2007. If you would like to get involved in this venture, please see the How You Can Help page, and add your name to the Participants section below.

WikiProject Scottish Islands

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Parent WikiProject 3 Participants 4 News 4.1 June, 2008 4.2 May, 2008 4.3 April, 2008 4.4 March, 2008 4.5 February, 2008 4.6 January, 2008 4.7 December, 2007 4.8 November, 2007 4.9 October, 2007 4.10 September, 2007 4.11 August, 2007 5 To Do List 6 Collaboration of the Month 6.1 2008 6.2 2007 7 Hall of Fame 7.1 Featured Articles 7.2 Good Articles 7.3 Current GA candidates 7.4 Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status 7.5 Did you know (DYK)s 7.6 Participants 7.7 Pages prone to POV pushing, vandalism, or that otherwise need watching 8 Templates 9 Disambiguation pages 10 Articles listed for deletion 11 See also 11.1 Broadcasting 11.2 History and folklore 11.2.1 Sagas 11.3 Language 11.4 Politics and government 11.4.1 Emergency services and police 11.5 Sport 11.6 Transport 12 Relevant non-WPSI articles

[edit] Scope

Our goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe Scottish islands.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Scottish islands by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Scottish islands in Wikipedia.

An overview of the islands involved can be found at the List of islands of Scotland.

[edit] Parent WikiProject

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

Related: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography

[edit] Participants

• Abtract
• An Siarach
• Andrewrpalmer
• Ben MacDui
• Brewphilip
• Cactus.man
• Celtus
• Deacon of Pndapetzim
• Deiz
• Drumhollistan
• Finavon
• Hadrianheugh
• Inge
• Kathryn NicDhàna
• Lianachan
• Lurker
• MacRusgail
• mgdm
• mikleran
• MorrisMacIver
• Nidator
• Pigman
• Rosser
• Shetlander57
• Suxamethonium
• Warofdreams

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[edit] News

[edit] June, 2008

• Rhoda Bulter becomes a peacock (some weird wikipedian term apparently)
• Roderick Wright
• Waternish, Trotternish, Loch Snizort

[edit] May, 2008

• Yesnaby - small place, great scenery.
• Inchbuie
• Firth#Firths_in_the_Northern_Isles - Firth article was lacking Orkney/Shetland examples. Tidying up and additions welcome.
• Over 1500 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A (keeping pace with parent wikiproject Scotland, which has nearly 1800 assessed)
• Ronas Hill (highest point in Shetland); Firth, Shetland; Billister
• Alloa Inch
• Sibhinis (Shivinish, Monach Islands)
• Nuclear sub crashes off Skye after 'tracing paper blunder'
• Resident revisits Eilean nan Ron

[edit] April, 2008

• Barpa Langass, Pobull Fhinn Rock on Uist!
• Coat of arms of Orkney
• Arrival of several new Orcadian Mainland parishes thanks mostly to Ben MacDui - Evie, Sandwick, Rendall, Stenness, St Ola, St Andrews, Firth. All Mainland parishes now have articles and are illustrated.
• Loch of Stenness, biggest freshwater body in Orkney.

[edit] March, 2008

• The Minch hit by giant meteorite. [1]
• St Kessog and Inchtavannach
• Castlebay article substantially expanded.

[edit] February, 2008

• Ern Stack
• Whiteness, Shetland created (Note: Previous article was at Whiteness, but was deleted without proper procedure, and replaced with a different one)--MacRusgail (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
• Hutton's Unconformity
• MacCrimmon (piping family)
• Midgarth (possible merge with Linga Holm?)
• Scottish Islands Federation
• Otterswick, Gloup‎, Copister, West Sandwick
• Ellanderroch
• Shipwreck Rat Fears for St Kilda birds
• Several interesting new articles including - Séon Carsuel, SS St. Sunniva
• Air link between Shetland and Norway to be restored

[edit] January, 2008

• Nesting, Northmavine, Cunningsburgh; South Isle of Gletness, Flotta
• Deerness, Harray, Holm, Mainland Orkney, Orphir; Hoy, Shetland, Langa, Shetland
• Holm of Noss (Cradle Holm); Fife adventurers; Inishail
• Category:River islands of Scotland
• Creinch, Inchgalbraith
• Len Bennett (1/3 of Davaar's population) goes missing
• Image:Island Games 2005 logo.jpg up for deletion - needed fair use rationale
• Haskeir
• Over 1100 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A (fast catching up with parent wikiproject Scotland, which has over 1500 assessed)
• Photo count - top 180 by area = 139/180 (with pictures - warning: may not yet be accurate figure)

[edit] December, 2007

• Mystery object washed up on Benbecula beach (<-It's a Coors brewing tower)
• Arrival of Hinba.
• Isle Maree (cut and paste job), Eilean Sùbhainn‎; then Eilean Ruairidh Mòr and Garbh Eilean, Loch Maree started
• Eileanan Iasgaich (note, not one island, so 50ha area is highly questionable)
• All (current) articles on Islands of the Forth group have pictures, and all Islands of the Clyde >40 ha
• All articles on individual islands in the top 70 by area now have photographs. (Remainder by area Top 80: 78/80; Top 90: 88/90; Top 100: 94/100)
• All articles on individual inhabited islands now have photographs.
• Second (known) deletion nomination Scottish Gaelic punk (vaguely connected with WPSI...)
• Rabbit Islands, Scotland

[edit] November, 2007

• Happy Valley (garden)
• 3,760 residents of Lewis and Harris sign petition against Sunday sailings by CalMac
• "Very serious" fire means more than 100 workers were evacuated from oil rig off Shetland.
• All articles on individual islands with population of 10 or over now have photographs.
• All articles in the two rankings list in the top 70 by population and top 50 by area, respectively, now have photographs.
• Seventy Shetland fishermen asked to pay back million pounds to council
• Wee Free has shortage of ministers, including Gàidhlig speakers
• A massive prehistoric wall has been found in Stenness, Orkney
• Over 1,000 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A
• Flodday near Barra; Craiglethy; Neish Island, Innis Chonnell; Nave Island
• Template:Lewis and Harris created, constructive comments welcome.
• The Scottish Islands Federation has been formed from the Scottish Islands Network. [2]
• Eilean Mòr, Crowlin Islands - also rank by area 118 not 94 (other renumbering to-do)
• Eilean Aigas
• Eilean Munde
• Birds on St Kilda killing each other
• Shetlands one of top island destinations in world. According to National Geographic.
• Samalan Island
• Suggested merger of Garbh Sgeir with Hyskeir. See Talk:Garbh Sgeir

[edit] October, 2007

• Over 900 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A
• First seal pups of the year seen on Isle of May and surrounding islands, link also here
• Black Holm, Eilean an Taighe (nb - both fairly common names, may require disambiguation)
• Gannets in danger, Scotsman newspaper launches campaign to save marine life
• Soay sheep use horns to fight over food
• Lampay
• Expansion of the article on Lady Isle, Firth of Clyde, Ayrshire.
• Important new cat Category:Tidal islands in Scotland - please populate
• The bot found John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. Possibly the only UK PM buried on a Scottish island? Although John Smith is another UK party leader who was buried in the islands.

[edit] September, 2007

• The arrival of User:AlexNewArtBot/ScottishIslandsSearchResult. Details here.
• Conference in Iceland- over continental shelf rights in Rockall area
• Shetlanders want £1.5m weather radar- "Tourists sometimes ask me what the summer was like up here. I tell them it was on a Tuesday."
• Fuaigh Beag
• Linga, Linga, Linga, and East Linga
• Barrel of Butter, Holm of Hebristra
• (Shetland) Gloup Holm, Orfasay; (Inner Hebrides) Fladda-chùain, Mingay
• Rare bee flourishing in Outer Hebrides- Northern Colletes (Did you know article, 18 September)
• (Shetland) Haaf Gruney, Little Roe; (Orkney) Horse of Copinsay, Thieves Holm; Oldany Island, Hellisay
• (Orkney) Holm of Houton, Holm of Scockness; (Outer Hebrides) Eilean Iubhard, Stuley
• Shorter articles on inhabited Orkney islands expanded, along with Whitehall
• First related article in deletion sorting since project founded - John 'Tonkan' Macdonald
• Yorkshireman Andy Strangeway becomes the first person to sleep on every Scottish island with an area of over 40 hectares. [3]

[edit] August, 2007

• Major vessels in the Calmac fleet added/expanded (minor to follow, eventually).
• All populated islands now have infoboxes (courtesy of Finavon).
• Assessed articles total now exceeds 500, total including unassessed exceeds 700 (largely courtesy of MacRusgail).
• Large number of new Shetland articles, often from Shetlopedia including Literature of Shetland, The Shetland Times, Vagaland, The New Shetlander, Jakob Jakobsen et al
• Hermetray; Islands of Fleet; MacCormaig Isles
• Gunna, Island Macaskin, Sodom, Shetland (sic - former home of Hugh MacDiarmid)
• (Orkney) Corn Holm, Rusk Holm, Holm of Faray, Holm of Huip, Sweyn Holm, Kili Holm, Calf of Flotta
• (Monach Islands) Ceann Iar, Shillay, Monach Isles, (Shetland) Ramna Stacks, Uynarey
• 5,000 year old Skara Brae vandalised and graffitied [4][5]
• Scalloway Islands, Ceann Ear
• Bigga, Shetland, Bigga (disambiguation)
• Inchtalla (probably should be Inch Talla, but both are variants) in Lake of Menteith.
• Added red-linked islands at List of Orkney islands: Rysa Little, Cava, Muckle Green Holm, Hunda, Damsay
• Islands of the Forth, Inchfad - new articles.
• Another 19 infoboxes added - top 50 by area and 50 by population now covered (approx 102 pages with infobox)
• Dùn Channuill and Template:Garvellachs created
• Puffin populations crash on Fidra and Craigleith [6]
• Puffin colony on Craigleith recovers thanks to hundreds of volunteers [7]
• The arrival of Little Bernera courtesy of Finavon - Infobox transclusion (circa) 66. (Original target date for this transclusion, sometime in 2017).

[edit] To Do List

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scottish_Islands/Requested_articles; voe Islands lacking pages: see Red links on List Largest islands lacking infoboxes: Linga Holm · Inch Kenneth · Glims Holm · Tahay · Lists: Inner Hebrides, Outer Hebrides, Largest island settlements, Parishes of Orkney, Parishes of Shetland Free images (including location maps): Sandray, Wiay, Uist, Hascosay, Seaforth Island, Calf of Eday Education: Orkney College Police forces: Argyll County Police, Orkney Constabulary, Renfrew and Bute Constabulary, Ross and Cromarty Constabulary, Zetland Constabulary. Island Games: 2005 Island Games (held in Shetland) and create tables History: Bernera Riot Disambiguate: Ayre Verify: Various including Arran, Eigg, Islay; Scottish entries on List of European islands by area and List of islands by area Cleanup: Sandwick · Hebridean Celtic Festival · The Minch Expand: Almost everything! (write lead and standardise headings); Northern Isles, Mainland, Shetland, Mainland, Orkney, Mull, Harris Largest islands with incomplete infoboxes: Stubs: Scottish islands stubs, Shetland stubs, Orkney stubs, Outer Hebridean stubs Other: Move license compatible images to WikiMedia Commons so photos are easily shared with all language wikis; Check out Template:Infobox Greek Dimos to see if cool features such as automatic population density and imperial measurements are worth putting into Infobox Scottish Island. Source appropriate fair use, and/or copyright free images from World_Wind and Geograph
Priority 1 (top)

[edit] Collaboration of the Month

[edit] 2008

• May - Bass Rock
• April - Mainland, Orkney. Much improved - now B class
• March - Skye. Possible GA.
• February - Yell Much improved: promoted to B class and close to GA.
• January - Islands of the Clyde Some good progress and now B class.

[edit] 2007

• December - Islands of the Clyde
• November - Ulva Result - much improved. Now promoted to B class and close to GA.
• October - Shapinsay - now an FA.
• September - Skara Brae Result - limited progress.
• August - List of Shetland islands Now a WP:FL.
• July - North Sea as part of the WP 'Collaboration of the Month' drive.

[edit] Hall of Fame

[edit] Featured Articles

Áedán mac Gabráin · List of islands of Scotland · List of Orkney islands · List of Shetland islands · Shapinsay · St Kilda

[edit] Good Articles

Dál Riata · Dubh Artach · Flannan Isles · Harald Maddadsson · Mingulay · Papa Stour · Raasay · Rùm · Skerryvore · Skye · Staffa ·

[edit] Current GA candidates

[edit] Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

• Islay
• Orkney
• Shetland
• Ulva
• Yell, Shetland

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

The following island articles have appeared on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section.

February 2008

Skerryvore

January 2008

Ruaidhri mac Raghnaill

December 2007

Hinba

October 2007

Lady Isle

August 2007

Balfour, Orkney

July 2007

List of Orkney islands

Mingulay, Lunga

The text of the DYK entries can be found at the Scotland Portal  —  Most recent DYKs  •  Older DYK's

[edit] Participants

List of Wikipedia Users by Pages Created

• No. 25 User:Warofdreams 2869 pages
• No. 183 User:MacRusgail 924 pages
• No. 239 User:Deacon of Pndapetzim 747 pages
• No. 3513 User:Cactus.man 72 pages
• No. 4432 User:Finavon 57 pages

See: Bryan's List.

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

• Barra
• Mossbank
• Shetland official football team
• Lewis
• Nicolson Institute
• Rockall
• Orkney
• Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
• Category:Orkney stubs

[edit] Templates

• Infobox Scottish island
• Template:Shetlopedia
• Freshwater bodies
  • Template:Loch Lomond
  • Template:Loch Maree
• Template:Hebrides
  • Inner Hebrides
    • Template:Garvellachs
    • Template:Slate Islands
    • Template:Small Isles
    • Template:Treshnish Isles
  • Outer Hebrides
    • Template:Barra Isles
    • Template:Heisgeir (Monach Islands - one word for brevity)
    • Template:Lewis and Harris
    • Template:Shiant Isles
    • Template:Sound of Barra
• Template:Islands of the Clyde
• Template:Islands of the Forth
• Template:Orkney Islands
  • Template:North West Orkney
  • Template:North East Orkney
  • Template:South West Orkney
  • Template:South East Orkney
• Template:Shetland
  • Template:East Shetland
  • Template:North Isles
  • Template:Out Skerries
  • Template:Scalloway Islands (inc. South West Shetland)
  • Template:Yell Sound
• Template:St Kilda

[edit] Disambiguation pages

There are numerous disambiguation pages associated with the Highlands and Islands, especially as many of the smaller islands share names. The following are essentially related to differentiating between Scottish islands.

• Berneray
• Bhacsaidh
• Eilean Bàn
• Eilean Dubh
• Eilean Fraoch
• Eilean Glas
• Eilean Mòr
• Flodday (disambiguation) (also from Fladda disambiguation)
• Fore Holm - see also Holm
• Garbh Eilean (disambiguation)
• Grass Holm - see also Holm
• Grimsay (disambiguation)
• Gruney (disambiguation) (incorporating "Gruna" and "Grunay")
• Holm
• Horse Island
• Hoy (disambiguation)
• Linga (disambiguation) (incorporating Lingay)
• Muckle Holm
• Oronsay
• Pabbay
• Papa, Scotland
• Rona (disambiguation)
• Ronaldsay
• Sanda ("Sanda, Scotland" redirects to Sanda Island)
• Sanday
• Sandwick
• Shuna
• Skerries (more of a list.)
• Soay
• Toab
• Twatt (yes, really)
• Ulva (disambiguation)
• Wether Holm
• Wiay

[edit] Articles listed for deletion

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biruaslum - Biruaslum - No Consensus
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hilton, Argyll and Bute - Hilton, Argyll and Bute
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Sichel - William Sichel Keep
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Harcus - Sam Harcus Deleted

[edit] See also

Articles which are relevant to Scottish islands.

• Arran Whitebeam
• The Minch
• Sea of the Hebrides
• Pentland Firth
• North Sea
• Norwegian Sea
• Firth of Clyde
• Firth of Forth
• Lewis
• Harris
• Loch Lomond
• Rockall
• Churchill Barriers
• Northern Lighthouse Board
• Scapa Flow
• Solway Firth (see Hestan etc)
• List of Marilyns on Scottish islands
• Scottish place names in other countries (with a disproportionate number of island names)
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • USA
• Category:Islands of Europe
• Category:Islands in the North Atlantic
• Islands of the North Atlantic
• British Isles

[edit] Broadcasting

• BBC Radio Orkney
• Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland
  • BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
  • BBC Alba (TV)
  • Machair (TV series)
  • Telefios
• Grampian Television
  • North Tonight
• Isles FM
• BBC Radio Shetland

[edit] History and folklore

• Battle of Largs
• Dál Riata
• History of the Outer Hebrides
• Hebridean Myths and Legends
• Highland Clearances
• Highland Potato Famine (could do with Hebridean input)
• History of the Orkney Islands
• Norse-Gaels
• Rocabarraigh
• Scottish clan
• Treaty of Perth
• Timeline of prehistoric Scotland

[edit] Sagas

• Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (King Haakon's Saga)
• Orkneyinga saga

[edit] Language

• Edward Dwelly
• Insular Scots
  • Orcadian dialect
  • Shetlandic
• Jakob Jakobsen
• Sorley MacLean
• Norn language
• Scottish Gaelic language
  • Canadian Gaelic
• Literature of Shetland
• Vagaland

[edit] Politics and government

• Alasdair Allan
• Argyll
• Bòrd na Gàidhlig
• County of Bute
• Croft (land)
• Cunninghame
• Dunbartonshire and Argyll & Bute
• Flag of Orkney
• Flag of Shetland
• Highland Land League
• Highlands and Islands Alliance
• Highlands and Islands Enterprise
• Highland Region
• Highlands and Islands (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
• Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland
• Liam McArthur
• Angus MacNeil
• Jim Mather
• Alasdair Morrison
• Donnie Munro
• John Farquhar Munro
• Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency)
• North Ayrshire (includes Clyde Islands)
• North Ayrshire and Arran (UK Parliament constituency)
• Orkney and Shetland Movement
• Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency)
• Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)
• Robbie the Pict
• Ross and Cromarty
• Ross, Skye and Inverness West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
• Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)
• Ross, Skye and Inverness West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
• Strathclyde Region (defunct region incorporating much of south west)
• Tavish Scott
• Donald Stewart
• Udal law
• Jim Wallace

[edit] Emergency services and police

• Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service
• Inverness-shire Constabulary
• Northern Constabulary
• Ross and Sutherland Constabulary
• Strathclyde Fire and Rescue
• Strathclyde Police

[edit] Sport

• Ba game
• Bute Shinty Club
• Highland Alliance League
• Highland Amateur Cup
• International Island Games Association
• Lewis and Harris Football League
• Orkney official football team
• West Regional Leagues (Rugby Union)
• Shetland official football team
• Skye Camanachd
• Western Isles official football team

[edit] Transport

• Air Caledonian
• Barra Airport
• Birlinn
• Caledonian MacBrayne
• Clyde Puffer
• Currach
• Fair Isle Airport
• Highland Airways
• Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
• Islay Airport
• Kirkwall Airport
• Lerwick Airport
• Loganair
• Northlink Ferries
• Orkney Ferries
• Pentland Ferries
• P&O Scottish Ferries
• Sixareen
• Skye Bridge
• Stornoway Airport
• Sumburgh Airport
• Smyril Line

[edit] Relevant non-WPSI articles

The following articles are not directly related to WPSI, but may be of use/interest to our readers for various reasons.

Scottish

• Kintyre
• Knoydart
• Pict & Pictish language
• History of Scotland + Geography of Scotland + Geology of Scotland

British Isles

• Channel Islands
• List of islands of England + Category:Islands of England
  • Islands of Furness
  • Farne Islands + Lindisfarne
• List of islands of Ireland + Category:Islands of Ireland
  • Rathlin Island
  • Irish language
• Isle of Man + List of islands of the Isle of Man
  • History of the Isle of Man
  • Manx language
• Isles of Scilly
• Category:Islands of Wales
  • Anglesey + Category:Islands of Anglesey
• List_of_Latin_place_names_in_the_British_Isles#Island_names

Scandinavia and Nordic Countries

• Denmark + List of islands of Denmark
  • History of Denmark
• Faroe Islands + Category:Faroe Islands
  • History of the Faroe Islands
  • Faroese language
• Greenland
  • History of Greenland
• Iceland + List of islands off Iceland
  • History of Iceland
  • Icelandic language
• Norway + Category:Islands of Norway
  • History of Norway
  • Norwegian language
• Old Norse
• Scandinavia, Nordic countries & Nordic Council
  • History of Scandinavia
• Sagas
• Viking Age

Elsewhere in Europe and beyond

• Celtic languages
• Frisian Islands
• Northern Europe
• Category:Islands of the North Sea
• List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean

General

• List of islands by area
• List of islands by highest point
• Category:Lists of islands by name
• Latin names of islands
• List of islands named after people