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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 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

General information
Main project page	talk
How You Can Help	talk
Collaboration of the month	talk
Populated Islands by rank	talk
Islands by area rank	talk
Population density table	talk
Infobox Scottish island	talk
How to write a Good Article	talk
Watch List	talk
New Articles	talk
Assessment	talk
Cleanup listing	talk
Peer review	talk
Requested articles	talk
Orkneyinga Saga	talk
Monro's Hebrides	talk
Origins of the Uí Ímair and the Earls of Orkney	talk
Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Scotland	talk
Deletion sorting	talk
WikiProject Clans of Scotland	talk
WikiProject Medieval Scotland	talk
WikiProject Scottish Castles	talk
WikiProject Transport in Scotland	talk
WikiProject Islands	talk
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[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

[edit] Participants

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[edit] News

Featured article candidates

04 Feb 2012 – Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Ben MacDui (t · c); see discussion

Scotland is famous for its castles and ghosts. This is a rare example of a castle that is a ghost.

The lighthouse on Eilean Musdile looking north from the Oban to Craignure ferry.

Loch Coruisk

Rockall - it's extreme.

The Dwarfie Stane

[edit] 2011

"Viking Canal" on Skye.
Possible community ownership of Scalpay, Outer Hebrides ("Islanders offered home as a ‘free gift’ from London owner").
Creation of Staffin Island - due to popular demand stemming from the BBC headlines.

[edit] 2010

Tullibody Inch
Law Ting Holm
Beetle mania as 'extinct' insect found on Scots isle
"The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland" including Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof added to the "tentative list" of World Heritage Sites.
Maiden Island
Picture of Scottish island reaches Commons Picture of the Year Final
In June 2010 Eilidh Macdonald became the first person to swim the Little Minch
Viking Bergen Island

[edit] 2009

December

Berneray's west beach used to advertise Kae Bae beach in Thailand. See "Scots beach in Thai tourist guide".
"A unique discovery of submerged man-made structures on the seabed off Orkney could help find solutions to rising sea levels, experts have said.", BBC News Scotland online
Crofter on Skye digs up a 'Viking' anchor [1] [2]

October

BBC re-air "Shetland Lone Star" - poor, lonely Thomas Fraser receives WPSI banner but sadly, is still an orphan.
MV Coruisk becomes the 2,000th WPSI mainspace article!

September

List of outlying islands of Scotland
Little Cumbrae to be renamed "Peace Island" by guru? [3][4][5]
Eilean Ceann na Creige; also Eilean Dà Ghallagain - site of sinking of MV Lochiel [6], Eilean Tràighe and smaller islands in West Loch Tarbert, Argyll

Summer

Is Stuart Hill (sailor) editing his own article?
New temple found at Heart of Neolithic Orkney - (see talk page only at present).
Sgarabhaigh is where to go if you want to quit smoking. (Links at article)
Little Cumbrae up for sale.
Kingarth
Inchconnachan's wallabies face cull. (Links at article)

April 2009

Liddle Burnt Mound

February 2009

Uri Geller buys The Lamb [7][8]

[edit] 2008

December

If surviving deletion Catriona MacDonald will be our 1800th assessed article.
Seal deaths reported on East Linga

October

Eilean Musdile
Blackwood (whisky distillery), to be the northernmost Scotch distillery.
Uninhabitable island, no pier, busy shipping lane...yours for over £75k
Shetland Goose
Roger Hutchinson (writer) (written by himself, but notable - trust me!)
Forvik in FL
Leif Larsen
Bayble Island
Congratulations to WoD on being elected.
Flodday near Vatersay and Ceallasaigh Mòr - last of the 40ha+ islands

[edit] To Do List

Some priorities for improvement:

[edit] Creation

1. Requested articles
2. Islands lacking pages: see Red links on Main List (NB alt spellings) including:
- >40 ha Eilean Meadhonach, Crowlin Islands; Ceallasaigh Beag, Loch Maddy
- various Summer Isles
- Outer Hebrides:
  - Loch Roag - (now complete)
  - Sound of Harris - Gilsaigh, Groaigh, Opsaigh, Sursaigh
  - E of N Uist - Flodday Beag
  - SE of Benbecula - Eilean na Cille, Fodragaigh, Trialabreac and Eileanan Chearabhaigh (see talk page)
  - Outliers - Haskeir Eagach
3. Crofters Commission
4. Dunglass Island, Rainish Eilean Mòr, Eilean Dubh Mòr, Loch Sgadabhagh - large freshwater isles
5. Munros: Sgurr Dubh Mòr, Sgurr nan Eag

[edit] Expansion

Top priority stubs
Smaller islands with incomplete infoboxes:
Other stubs: Scottish islands stubs, Shetland stubs, Orkney stubs, Outer Hebridean stubs

[edit] Images

[edit] Cleanup

See Cleanup listing
Tidy up main list - some of the red links are unlikely topics for articles and could be relegated to an appearance on the subsidiary lists.

[edit] Collaboration of the Month

There were numerous collaborations from 2007-2010. They may be resumed at any time using the "instructions" on the archive page, which also lists earlier collaborations.

[edit] Hall of Fame

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured topics

Islands of Scotland

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know? articles

[edit] Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

Old Man of Storr

[edit] Participants

Eilean Munde in Loch Leven

List of Wikipedia Users by Pages Created

No. 42 User:Warofdreams 3158 pages
No. 201 User:MacRusgail 1182 pages
No. 279 User:Deacon of Pndapetzim 910 pages
No. 1980 User:Inge 171 pages
No. 2712 User:Hadrianheugh 125 pages
No. 2923 User:Celtus 117 pages
No. 3563 User:Deiz 95 pages
No. 3791 User:Abtract 89 pages
No. 3821 User:Finavon 88 pages
No. 4027 User:Ben MacDui 83 pages
No. 4586 User:Cactus.man 72 pages

See: Bryan's List.

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

Basta, Yell

The old school house on Mingulay/Miughlaigh.

Users should feel free to use the recent changes function to examine changes to most articles relevant to this group by hitting this link.

[edit] Watchlist

WikiProject Scottish Islands automatic watchlist

[edit] Templates

The extensive Hebridean archipelago

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

[edit] Disambiguation pages

Berneray - but which one?

1890s Ordnance Survey map of Papa Stour, one of several "Papa" islands

One of many many Lingas with a skerry in front

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. Those indicated with an asterisk (*) are "set index articles" rather than dab pages per se.