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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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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

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

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

To Do List

Some priorities for improvement:

Creation

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

User:JL-Bot/Project content

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Good topics

Did you know? articles

Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

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Old Man of Storr

Participants

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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

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Basta, Yell
File:Old School house Mingulay.jpg
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

User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Scottish Islands

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Assessment

Templates

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The extensive Hebridean archipelago

Disambiguation pages

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Berneray - but which one?
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1890s Ordnance Survey map of Papa Stour, one of several "Papa" islands
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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

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

Articles which are relevant to Scottish islands.

Broadcasting

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A contented looking sheep on Eigg

History and folklore

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Callanish Stones
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A blighted potato tuber

Sagas

Language

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

Politics and government

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Charles Kennedy MP
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The area covered by the Northern Constabulary

Emergency services and police

Sport

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Holm of Noss cliffs by Isle of Noss, Shetland

Transport

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

Relevant non-WPSI articles

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The Farne Islands... close, but no cigar
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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

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  Old East Norse dialect
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  Old Gutnish dialect
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  Old English
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  Crimean Gothic
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  Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility

Elsewhere in Europe and beyond

General

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