Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board

Scottish Wikipedians' notice board

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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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As A wis walkin doun the road,
A met a cou — A BULL B'Goad!. (**Highland Cattle**)

News

Created articles and templates are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New articles.
Created images are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New images.
Created categories are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New categories.
Created stubs are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New stubs.
Created Portals are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New Portals.
Created WikiProjects are listed at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New WikiProjects.
Other completed requests can be found at Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/Completed requests and finished projects.

Pages listed on Articles for deletion

Brae (AfD discussion)
Economy of Scotland (AfD discussion) - Kept
Marion Braidfute (AfD discussion) - Kept

Images tabbed for deletion

File:Scotland royal coa.jpg
Image:Scotland royal coa.jpg

Pages listed on Categories for deletion

no cats currently listed

Pages listed on Stubs for deletion and WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals

21 October

Stub proposals - Wars and Rumors of Wars

9 October

Stub proposals - Split of {{footy-stub}} and {{euro-footyclub-stub}}

Pages listed on Templates for deletion

Pages listed on Articles with disputed merge proposals

No articles currently listed.

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

Jock Stein

Pages listed on Requested moves

Announcements

And now a very warm welcome to Portal:Wales.--Mais oui! 16:49, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A very warm welcome to the new Portal:England, which is developing rapidly. Which prompts me to mention that, although reasonable at the moment, Portal:Scotland could do with some review, progress and development, to make it truly excellent. The number one priority is really to benchmark it against other, better portals, and "nick" their good ideas (to be undiplomatic about it)! My name is down as the initiator and main point of contact, but I have been getting involved in (diverted by) other projects and would really appreciate it if some other SWNB participants could give it a look and suggest improvements. Best place for discussion is probably Portal Talk:Scotland, rather than here.--Mais oui! 12:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Requested articles (to be created)

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

Requested images

See Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/image requests for the full list.

Preferably download 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:

~~James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)~~ (done)
~~Falls of Clyde (waterfalls)~~ (done)
National Scenic Area (Scotland) (started)
~~St. Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle: exterior showing round headed windows and door, interior showing chancel arch.~~ thanks
~~Oor Wullie~~ (done) - fairuse
~~St Athernase Church (Leuchars, Fife)~~ (done)
~~John Maclean MA~~ (done)
Cumbernauld - some photos of the "award winning" architecture in the town would be interesting

Maps

New mapsets for Orkney and Shetland (example)

Requests for expansion

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.

River Afton, and Burns' poem Sweet Afton
William Lithgow, Auditor General of New South Wales
Sydney Devine
Buccleuch Scotch beef
Harris Tweed
Hobbie stanza
Kingdom of Scotland
Scottish Dance Theatre
Scottish folklore
Scottish Maritime Museum
Rosneath

Requests for Article attention/review/comment/cleanup

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[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Scotland-related articles carrying a Cleanup tag

"since July 2005"

Govan

"since August 2005"

"since November 2005"

Possible candidates for featured article status

Aberdeen as-is appears better than either the Edinburgh or Glasgow articles.
Doune Castle - which is quite entertaining, and generally ok. Could do with (peer?) review and checking for any refinements needed. ..dave souza 12:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Edinburgh (as proposed by WikiProject UK geography: "... to featured quality by June 2006".)
Glasgow
Scotland
William Murdoch - I'm trying to get this up to featured article level, it's been knocked back on the AID but as he is a neglected Scot perhaps some here can assist. AllanHainey 15:50, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
William John Macquorn Rankine, needs a lot of work, but is of international/scientific interest. --MacRusgail 18:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Scotland-related articles that are Featured articles

History of Scotland
Denis Law
James I of England (James VI of Scotland)
Charles I of England (Charles I of Scotland)
Charles II of England (Charles II of Scotland)
James II of England (James VII of Scotland)
Mary II of England (Mary II of Scotland}
William III of England (William II of Scotland)
Anne of Great Britain (Queen of Scotland until 1707)
Single malt Scotch
Order of the Thistle

Scotland-related articles that are Good articles

Possible candidates articles for deletion

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Current informal projects

Wikinews

Mmmm... the n:Category:Scotland section looks a little,... well,... sad :(

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

Finished informal projects

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Scotland-related stub markers (templates)

Consider tagging very 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 Category:Scotland stubs)

For Scottish geography-related stubs, {{Scotland-geo-stub}} (articles listed in Category:Scotland geography stubs) (this is likely to be split by region in the near future)
For Scottish biography stubs, {{Scotland-bio-stub}} (Category:Scottish people stubs)
For Scottish buildings stubs, {{Scotland-struct-stub}} (Category:Scotland buildings and structures 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 Template:Gd icon).

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).

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.)

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Highland English

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Scottish English

No, we're not talking turkey, we're talking turnips: Talk:Turnip.--Mais oui! 15:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Scottish English#Inaccurate map regarding the perceived deficiencies of the following map:

Scottish Gaelic language

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Scots language

Is Ulster Scots a language or a dialect of a language? Have your say at: Talk:Ulster_Scots_language#Proposal:_rename_to_Ulster_Scots_dialect.--Mais oui! 14:34, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Brython and Talk:Briton: Were the Picts Brythonic language speakers or a non-Indo-European language speakers? There is a request for verifiable sources regarding the latest scholarly opinion.--Mais oui! 14:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This book is available to legally and freely download, and is an excellent read on this matter. Lianachan 16:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to check that link... Shimgray | talk | 16:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Scottish-Gaelic creoles

This is, of course, a silly joke. There are no such creoles. Gaelicmichael 19:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjects on Scotland-related topics

WikiProject Clans of Scotland
WikiProject Peerage (believed to be inactive)
WikiProject Sherlock Holmes (believed to be inactive)
WikiProject UK subdivisions (Scotland) (believed to be inactive)
WikiProject British Government
WikiProject British TV channels
WikiProject UK geography
WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies
WikiProject Business and Economics
WikiProject Cities
WikiProject Countries
WikiProject Football
WikiProject Historical states (believed to be inactive)
WikiProject History
WikiProject Linguistics
WikiProject Middle Ages
WikiProject Sports
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting

Requested Scotland-related WikiProjects

Scotland-related resources/references

Our subpages

/Requested articles
/New articles (articles and templates)
/New images (image galleries)
/New categories
/New stubs
/New Portals
/New WikiProjects
/Completed requests and finished projects
/Old articles (both articles and images)
/Old categories
/Old news
/Image requests
/Scotland-related quality articles – Eventual Featured article candidates?
/Terminology – Reference list of English translations of common Scottish Gaelic and Scots terms

Other

External

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List of participants

--Mais oui! 06:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- General topics: history, language, biographical articles, cycling (road-racing), wildlife, architecture etc
- Particular interests: David Millar, Independent school (UK), Education in Scotland, Scots law
--dave souza 19:28, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Interests: history, life, the universe and everything with a Scottish connection
--Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 23:35, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Particular interests: the History of Scotland and Scottish clans, Scottish Lowland families, particularly the Porteous family, and their Emigration to Canada and the USA
Derek Ross | Talk 07:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Interests: nothing in particular, just stuff...
--Doc (?) 11:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- various -esp history and religion
--GraemeL ^(talk) 12:26, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- No specific interests.
--Kilo-Lima 20:46, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- The weather.
--Mendor 14:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Interests: language, politics, politics of language, language of politics... possibly Scottish food as well
Alai 14:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- In practice, mainly gnomish things like stub-sorting; in theory Dumbarton, Glasgow University, and related stuff...
--Canaen 26 October 2005
- Interests: Scottish Clans, Scots, Scots Gaelic, Scottish History, many more.
Supergolden 12:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Mostly Lanarkshire related stuff, a few of Category:Scotland geography stubs now and again.
--MacRusgail 15:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Berek 12:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Mainly History and Geography-type articles.
Vclaw 18:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- No specific interests
Maccoinnich 01:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Architecture, Edinburgh, The Highlands mostly
Leithp (talk) 22:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Various rubbish.
AllanHainey 13:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- - Mostly history, Scottish colonization of the Americas, William Murdoch, etc.
Camillus McElhinney CPMCE 10:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- various polititics, mostly Marxist, some Sport
An Siarach 16:45, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Scottish and British history, especially medieval. Language change in the UK and the world in general.
Calgacus 17:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- The River Clyde & Clydeside buildings, Politicians and Politics of Scotland, Scottish and UK roads and motorways
Nach0king 18:46, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- Belated addition of self - architecture related, historic buildings, art, sourcing appropriate images, plus whatever takes my fancy as I travel about the place here :)