Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands

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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.

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Scottish Islands
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Main project page talk
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Assessment talk
Vital articles progress 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
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
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Scope[edit]

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[edit]

Related: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography

Participants[edit]

This user is a member of WikiProject Scottish Islands.


  1. Abtract
  2. An Siarach
  3. Andrewrpalmer
  4. Akerbeltz
  5. Ben MacDui
  6. Bo98
  7. Brewphilip
  8. Bryccan
  9. Cactus.man
  10. Celtus
  11. User:CoffeeRansacked
  12. Deacon of Pndapetzim
  13. Dhmellor
  14. Deiz
  15. Dickonprior
  16. Drchriswilliams
  17. Drumhollistan
  18. Espresso Addict
  19. Fantoman400
  20. Finavon
  21. Hadrianheugh
  22. Inge
  23. Kathryn NicDhàna
  24. Lianachan
  25. LJElliott21
  26. Lord Spring Onion
  27. Lurker
  28. MacRusgail
  29. MacSteaphain
  30. mgdm
  31. Mikhailov Kusserow
  32. mikleran
  33. MorrisMacIver
  34. Nidator
  35. OliverEastwood
  36. Pigman
  37. Rosser
  38. RussellM
  39. SarahTHunter
  40. Shetlander57
  41. Suxamethonium
  42. Warofdreams
  43. Finnrind (Finn Rindahl)
  44. Chutneycheddar

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News[edit]

Articles for deletion

Featured article reviews

Articles for creation

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

2013[edit]

The Scottish Government introduce the Bee Keeping (Colonsay and Oronsay) Order 2013 to protect the species Apis mellifera mellifera from cross-breeding and disease.

To Do List[edit]

Some priorities for improvement:

Creation[edit]

Expansion[edit]

  1. Top priority stubs
  2. Smaller islands with no infoboxes: Dùn, St Kilda, Grunay, Haaf Gruney, Inchcruin, Inchmoan, Lady's Holm, Linga, Vaila, Little Holm, Scatness,Little Holm, Yell Sound, Little Roe, Muckle Skerry, North Havra, Sibhinis, Urie Lingey, Uynarey
  3. Other stubs: Scottish islands stubs, Shetland stubs, Orkney stubs, Outer Hebridean stubs

Images[edit]

Cleanup[edit]

  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[edit]

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.

Hall of Fame[edit]

Featured articles[edit]

Featured lists[edit]

Good articles[edit]

Good topics[edit]

Did you know? articles[edit]

Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status[edit]

Old Man of Storr

Participants[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Assessment[edit]

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Assessment

Templates[edit]

The extensive Hebridean archipelago

Disambiguation pages[edit]

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.

Categories[edit]

Islands with their own categories:

Articles listed for deletion[edit]

See also[edit]

Commissioners' 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[edit]

A contented looking sheep on Eigg

History and folklore[edit]

Callanish Stones
A blighted potato tuber

Sagas[edit]

Language[edit]

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

Politics and government[edit]

Charles Kennedy MP
The area covered by the Northern Constabulary

Emergency services and police[edit]

Sport[edit]

Holm of Noss cliffs by Isle of Noss, Shetland

Transport[edit]

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[edit]

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:
  Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility

Elsewhere in Europe and beyond

General