Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scottish_Islands

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands

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.

More information WikiProjectScottish Islands ...

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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


  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

Articles for deletion

  • 18 Apr 2024 – Corston Airstrip (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Trainsandotherthings (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)

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

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

Some priorities for improvement:

Creation

  • 1. Requested articles
  • 2. Islands lacking pages: Islands by area (NB alt spellings) including:
    • Outer Hebrides:
      • Flodday, Loch Maddy - c 50 ha
      • Sound of Harris - Gilsaigh, Groaigh, Sursaigh, Bhacasaigh/Vacasay (at 29 ha the largest red linked island)
      • E of N Uist - Flodaigh Beag
      • E of Benbecula - tidal islands Fuidheigh Beag and Orasaigh, Benbecula
      • SE of Benbecula - Fodragaigh, Trialabreac
      • Outliers - Haskeir Eagach
    • Orkney - Start Point, Sanday (currently a redirect)
    • Freshwater - Eilean Dubh Mòr, Loch Sgadabhagh
  • 3. Munros: Sgurr Dubh Mòr, Sgurr nan Eag

Expansion

  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

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

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

Good articles

Good topics

Did you know? articles

Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

Old Man of Storr

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
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

More information Scottish Islands articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Assessment

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.

Categories

Islands with their own categories:

Articles listed for deletion

See also

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

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

Charles Kennedy MP
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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