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* Proposed moves of [[Category:Isle of Skye]], [[:Category:Shetland Islands]] and related Shetland cats. See [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 December 19]]


===December 2009===
===December 2009===

Revision as of 10:21, 20 December 2009

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.

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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.

Parent WikiProject

Related: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography

Participants

This user is a member of WikiProject Scottish Islands.

Free Userbox available here.

News

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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.

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Loch Coruisk

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Rockall - it's extreme.

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The Dwarfie Stane

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December 2009

October 2009

  • 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 2009

Summer, 2009

April 2009

February 2009

December 2008

October 2008

See also Archive, for earlier articles.

To Do List

Major priorities for improvement:

Creation

  1. Requested articles
  2. Islands lacking pages: see Red links on Main List
  3. Crofters Commission
  4. Eilean Ighe in the Sound of Arisaig grid reference NM633879
  5. Eilean Fladday and Eilean Tigh off Raasay - both likely to be 40 ha plus
  6. Tarner Island and Harlosh Island, both in Loch Bracadale, Skye.
  7. Eilean Mòr, Loch Dunvegan which may be 30 ha plus at low tides grid reference NG224489. Similarly South Ascrib in the Ascrib Islands
  8. Eilean Trodday off Trotternish is at least 30 ha
  9. Innis Mhòr, Neave Island, Eilean Choraidh, Eilean Hoan from List of outlying islands of Scotland
  10. Strathaird, Minginish and Duirinish, Skye - no longer missing Skye peninsulas

Expansion

  1. Top priority stubs
  2. Smaller islands with incomplete infoboxes:
  3. Other stubs: Scottish islands stubs, Shetland stubs, Orkney stubs, Outer Hebridean stubs
  4. List of Inner Hebrides
  5. Major expansions and improvements needed for Secret Plan

Background data

  1. Sort out existing area tables for "discovery" of Eilean Mòr, Loch Langavat
  2. Sort out existing area tables for "discovery" of Eilean Mhic Chrion
  3. Sort out existing area tables for Eilean Trodday, Eilean Fladday and Eilean Tigh
  4. Create table of islands listed by population density (- may lead to additional infobox field)

Images

  1. Wiay, Uist
  2. Hascosay
  3. Forewick Holm

Cleanup

  1. See Cleanup listing
  2. 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.

Collaboration of the Month

The remains of the Bass Rock castle today, and the lighthouse.

See archive for earlier collaborations.

2009

2008

Hall of Fame

Featured Articles

Áedán mac Gabráin · HMS Royal Oak (08) · Samuel Johnson · List of islands of Scotland · List of Orkney islands · List of Outer Hebrides · List of Shetland islands · Shapinsay · SMS Von der Tann · St Kilda · Timeline of prehistoric Scotland

Good Articles

The old school house on Mingulay/Miughlaigh.

Arran · Barra Head · Dál Riata · Dòmhnall mac Raghnaill · Dubh Artach · Eriskay Pony · Flannan Isles · Gigha  Harald Maddadsson · Jarlshof · Loch Leven Castle · Mingulay · Papa Stour · Prehistoric Orkney · Raasay · Rùm · Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow · Skerryvore · Skye · SMS König · Staffa ·

Current GA candidates

Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

Old Man of Storr

Did you know (DYK)s

Map of the Norwegian Sea

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

2009

2008

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

See also Archive, for earlier DYK entries.

Participants

Eilean Munde in Loch Leven

List of Wikipedia Users by Pages Created

See: Bryan's List.

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

Basta, Yell

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

Templates

The extensive Hebridean archipelago

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.

Articles listed for deletion

See also

Commisioners' Flag of the Northern Lighthouse Board
There are some sixty islands in Loch Lomond.
Rockall, is it, or isn't it?

Articles which are relevant to Scottish islands.

Broadcasting

A contented looking sheep on Eigg

History and folklore

Callanish Stones
A blighted potato tuber

Sagas

Language

Faroese linguist Jakob Jakobsen, whose work on Shetland Norn remains seminal

Politics and government

Teàrlach Ceannadach BP
The area covered by the Northern Constabulary

Emergency services and police

Sport

Holm of Noss cliffs by Isle of Noss, Shetland

Transport

MV Saturn, one of the "Cal Mac" fleet
Up and running at Barra Airport (it's a beach!)
Climate change plays havoc with Hebridean transport routes

Relevant non-WPSI articles

The Farne Islands... close, but no cigar
Rathlin, with Kintyre & Sanda

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

Scottish

British Isles

Scandinavia and Nordic Countries

The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:
  Old West Norse dialect
  Old East Norse dialect
  Old Gutnish dialect
  Old English
  Crimean Gothic
  Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility

Elsewhere in Europe and beyond

General

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