Talk:Edinburgh Festival

The organisation of the Festivals depicted here is wrong: every single festival is seperate, the EIF is the oldest and smallest one, it does not encompass all these festivals listed. In fact the Fringe is the largest. Will correct.

Magicalsausage 20:31, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Just for the record, the EIF is far from the smallest - it reached 335,000 people last year, far more than some of the others...

--Oolong 16:56, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm wondering if we should add external links to all these festivals, since so many of them aren't covered here at all? I know Wikipedia Is Not A Links Directory etc. but would it not make sense in a case like this?

--Oolong 15:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I have re-ordered the external links section to reflect the order in which they were originally added. I have also removed salesy words BAK 12:04, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I'm quite new to Wikepedia (or at least to the editing side), but I've remembered the advice to "be bold" and have made a few changes to this article. The main things I've done are (a) to add a couple of paragraphs of historical context to explain how the Edinburgh Festival came into being and why there are so many independent Festivals; and (b) to add the dates of foundation of the individual Festivals as a way of reflecting how well-established they all are. I also removed the Free Festival from the list of Festivals, as this is really a promoter within the Fringe and in my view wasn't appropriate for listing at the same level as the Festivals themselves (though I did leave the link to it in the External Links section).

I should declare the interest that I am the editor of the website FringeGuru, but I hope the community will feel that the link I've added is justifiable because of the relevant and factual content of the linked page. Any comments are welcome. EmbraBloke 15:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Looks like good work to me, surely an improvement. Thanks! I don't think you should worry too much about editing articles about things you might be involved with in other ways, as long as you can keep objective about it... (but I'm not that much of a Wikipedian, so don't assume I'm necessarily right about anything).--Oolong 21:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Other festivals

This section doesn't belong in this article as these other festivals are not part of the Edinburgh Festival (they are just other festivals in Edinburgh) - so I've moved it here:

Although the phrase "Edinburgh Festival" is generally taken to refer to the summer cultural events, a number of other festivals are held in the city around the year. These include, in calendar order:

• Ceilidh Culture — held annually in March and April [1]
• Edinburgh International Harp Festival — held annually in March/April [2]
• Edinburgh International Science Festival — held annually in April [3]
• OneEighty — the Science Festival 'fringe' (began 2006)
• Edinburgh Easter Festival — held annually [4]
• Beltane Fire Festival — held annually on the 30th April [5]
• Dark City Festival — a goth music festival, held annually in May [6]
• Children's International Theatre Festival — held annually in late May [7]
• Edinburgh World Justice Festival — held annually during the last two weeks of June [8]
• Meadows Festival — usually held in June. (Returned in 2008 after a 3-year absence)
• Leith Festival — held annually in June [9]
• Scottish International Storytelling Festival — held annually in October and November [10]
• Edinburgh's Capital Christmas [11]
• The exceptionally large Hogmanay celebrations [12]